The Queen hands out Maundy Thursday money - March 20, 2008

[ysbel]

Originally Posted by msleiman

So how much money is in the little purse?

msleiman, you may be interested to see some of the coins from the past Maundy services.

This one is a 5 pound coin from 1996 to celebrate HM's 70th birthday.

Now this picture indicates the total value of the silver coins is tenpence which would not buy you much any more.

However these are real coins and can be spent like any other money.

More pictures from Maundy services can be found in the images link in my first post above.

[RoyalProtocol]

Originally Posted by ysbel

Thanks for sharing RoyalProtocol. What a lovely time you must have had. Its a shame though you had to go through such high security but necessary I'm afraid.

I hope it didn't mar the meaningful experience for you.

I wasn't bothered about the security as The Queen's safety is of the utmost importance at all times and one would have felt dreadful if anything had of happened to Her Majesty.

[RoyalProtocol]

Originally Posted by msleiman

So how much money is in the little purse?

This year one purse has 82p made up of 1,2,3,4pences to mark HM's 82 year, the other had a new £5 coin for The Prince of Wales's 60th Birthday and a 2008 50 pence.

[ysbel]

Originally Posted by RoyalProtocol

I wasn't bothered about the security as The Queen's safety is of the utmost importance at all times and one would have felt dreadful if anything had of happened to Her Majesty.

I'm glad to hear that. It didn't register with me when I first posted the thread that the service would be in Northern Ireland.

I suppose though with the added security they wouldn't let people take cameras into the church.

[Skydragon]

Originally Posted by ysbel

I suppose though with the added security they wouldn't let people take cameras into the church.

Security is always high for HM. Every person who applies or is invited, has not only their name checked, but parents and all other known and alleged friends and relatives. I think our security services do a great job, checking, rechecking and cross checking the seemingly endless lists of names.