Her trusty Launer handbag is as intrinsic to the Queen as crowns and corgis,but it turns out the [br]accessory has a more important utilize than holding her spectacles on official engagements.
Citing royal historian Hugo Vickers, the Daily Mail reports that the monarch uses her bag to send secret signals to her staff to indicate when she's alert to move on from a conversation. He told People magazine that shifting her bag from one hand to the other is an indication the royal is alert to discontinuance a chat. “Luckily, or they’d let you down easy,' he said. 'It would be done very nicely. Someone would arrive along and say, ‘Sir, or the Archbishop of Canterbury would very much like to meet you'.”
According to Vickers,whether the Queen is particularly keen to exit the conversation she will make the more significant gesture of twisting her ring as a sign to staff to intervene.
Also, while taking official meetings at Buckingham Palace she has the utilize of a discreet buzzer that gives staff the nod to open the doors and accompany the guest out.
It's previously been revealed that when the Queen places her bag on the table at an event, or it's a five minute warning to her ladies-in-waiting that she's alert to leave.
The Queen is not the only one who makes her handbag more than just an accessory to complement her outfit.
Source: tert.am