# Does the queen of England have her own mobile phone?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [November 18, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727 "2018-11-18T08:37:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2019, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/21 "2019-01-22T23:35:18Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#):
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> It has been said that she has a We-phone.
She did (sort of) [have a Wii at one stage](https://kotaku.com/the-queens-golden-wii-has-been-found-1831851481).
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/22 "2019-01-22T23:59:16Z")
If the Queen is like my mother, the cell phone is only turned on when she’s making a call or expecting someone to call her back.
We’ve tried and tried to get her to leave it on throughout the day. No luck.
If you call the Queen, do you have to curtsey or bow?
😃
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### Author:  [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/23 "2019-01-23T01:02:22Z")
What happens if she gets a spam call? Does some official trace it and give the spammer an unwanted visit?
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/24 "2019-01-23T01:13:24Z")
It’s not like she’s ordering pizza or something. With the recent car wreck the Prince had it seems a good idea for them to have devices on them while they are out alone. Anything could happen, they are not spring chickens anymore.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/25 "2019-01-23T01:21:10Z")
> [@dtilque](#):
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> What happens if she gets a spam call? Does some official trace it and give the spammer an unwanted visit?
I’m not sure how common spam calls on a mobile number are in the UK. I’ve had the same number for roughly 18 years, and have never had one. Mobile numbers in the UK are allocated from a non-geographic range, beginning 07, and so are readily identifiable. I think there’s legislation preventing UK-based companies spamming numbers in that range, which probably helps a bit.
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### Author:  [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/26 "2019-01-23T04:26:43Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#):
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> I’m not sure how common spam calls on a mobile number are in the UK. I’ve had the same number for roughly 18 years, and have never had one. Mobile numbers in the UK are allocated from a non-geographic range, beginning 07, and so are readily identifiable. I think there’s legislation preventing UK-based companies spamming numbers in that range, which probably helps a bit.
I read the industry press, and some people in the UK certainly think the fines should be bigger and more frequent, so it’s not a total zero.
I’ve not heard of anyone getting spam calls on their mobile in Aus, but we don’t have as much regulation (to generate reporting). Most of the nuisance calls I get at home are straight-out criminal scams, and they concentrate on the elderly and small business operators on land-line phones.
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### Author:  [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/27 "2019-01-23T10:26:52Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#):
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> I’m not sure how common spam calls on a mobile number are in the UK. I’ve had the same number for roughly 18 years, and have never had one. Mobile numbers in the UK are allocated from a non-geographic range, beginning 07, and so are readily identifiable. I think there’s legislation preventing UK-based companies spamming numbers in that range, which probably helps a bit.
I get them occasionally, I just block them.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/28 "2019-01-23T13:21:02Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> She was [photographed using one](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/35/6a/3d356a46c8261c89da2f6be0513ca855.jpg) a while ago.
Damn. Manchester United lost _again_.
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/29 "2019-01-23T13:52:51Z")
I recall reading in the British press more than a decade ago that her phone number had extra digits, or something like that, to prevent people from mistakenly dialing her number.
Of course, I’m going from memory here, and I am citing the British press generally, so take this with a big grain of salt.
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### Author:  [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/30 "2019-01-23T21:58:31Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> It’s not like she’s ordering pizza or something. With the recent car wreck the Prince had it seems a good idea for them to have devices on them while they are out alone. Anything could happen, they are not spring chickens anymore.
I would be very surprised if Phil did not at least have security in a chase car following. Maybe nobody would volunteer to ride in the same car…?
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/31 "2019-01-23T22:15:39Z")
> [@md2000](#):
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> Maybe nobody would volunteer to ride in the same car…?
President Obama and the First Lady did on their last official visit to the UK - accepting a ride from Prince Phil, along with Her Maj, from Marine One in Windsor Great Park to Windsor Castle. There can’t have been many times the Secret Service has let a nonagenarian foreigner drive their principals. :eek:
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/32 "2019-01-23T22:17:16Z")
> [@Melbourne](#):
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> I read the industry press, and some people in the UK certainly think the fines should be bigger and more frequent, so it’s not a total zero.
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> I’ve not heard of anyone getting spam calls on their mobile in Aus, but we don’t have as much regulation (to generate reporting). Most of the nuisance calls I get at home are straight-out criminal scams, and they concentrate on the elderly and small business operators on land-line phones.
I get spam/scam calls on my mobile about every couple of months or so. I’m not quite able to distinguish which, since I always hang up the instant I hear an unfamiliar business name (except for the one with the crude robotic voice that tells me I’m about to be taken to court for my massive tax debt unless I call them immediately, that one’s always fun…)
Apparently spam \*\*texting \*\*is illegal unless it’s for a political party, as half the country has recently discovered by way of a spam text from a political party.
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/33 "2019-01-23T22:20:53Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#):
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> President Obama and the First Lady did on their last official visit to the UK - accepting a ride from Prince Phil, along with Her Maj, from Marine One in Windsor Great Park to Windsor Castle. There can’t have been many times the Secret Service has let a nonagenarian foreigner drive their principals. :eek:
Lucky he got 'em back in one piece, under the circumstances.
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### Author:  [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-queen-of-england-have-her-own-mobile-phone/824727/34 "2019-01-24T21:28:46Z")
I’m curious to know what she uses for tweeting.
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