# Does Queen Elizabeth ever dine with ordinary folks?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-queen-elizabeth-ever-dine-with-ordinary-folks/235813 "2004-03-23T01:10:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-queen-elizabeth-ever-dine-with-ordinary-folks/235813/41 "2004-03-25T14:00:21Z")

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I’ve “eaten” with the Queen ie within walking distance, but not exactly intimate, on several occasions - as a guest at a formal do. These sort of invites come along if you do the right sort of job (mine have usually come through the Queen’s Awards for Industry/Export - which is the line I’m in).

I have also been invited to Highrove a couple of times, which again is an occupational hazard (and the Prince Of Wales hits you for a “donation” to the Prince’s Trust).

HM the Queen has better food and is more generous with the wine.

Recently a tabloid reporter infiltrated the Place and exposed the thruth about how the queen dines when alone:

[http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13638235&method=full&siteid=50143](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=13638235&method=full&siteid=50143)

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**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-queen-elizabeth-ever-dine-with-ordinary-folks/235813/42 "2004-03-25T14:25:11Z")

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> [@chiefgnome](#):
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> Ahh…but we are! The Celts aren’t the original inhabitants \<i\>either\</i\>, and more to the point they originate from South-East Germany. They took over Britain in two waves, the first around 600-400BC and the second around 150BC.

IIRC there is some recent dispute about whether the ‘invasions’ were of ‘bloodstock’ or really of culture- a limited number of people joining the indigenous population and carrying their culture with them.

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