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Queen tried to get UK poverty fund to heat palace (AP)

September 24th, 2010

FILE - This is a Monday, Feb. 2, 2009 file photo of a snowman as it stands in the middle of The Mall with Buckingham Palace in the background in London. A government fund intended to provide subsidized heating to low-income Britons got an application from an unexpected citizen: Queen Elizabeth II, who wanted help paying the heating bills at Buckingham Palace. The official response, according to documents unearthed by a British newspaper, Friday Sept. 24, 2010, was that the handout might prove to be an embarrassment if word ever got out. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)AP - A government fund intended to provide subsidized heating to low-income Britons got some interest from an unexpected source: Queen Elizabeth II, who wanted help paying the bills at Buckingham Palace.


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