It’s Cold When I Do This. Don’t Do That.

According to Sky News, in 2004 an aide to Queen Elizabeth II wrote the government complaining that the cost of heating Buckingham Palace had doubled to $1.58 million a year and asked if the Queen might be eligible for a Community Energy Funding anti-poverty grant to help heat her palaces. Plural. The request was turned down. Hopefully so were the palaces’ thermostats.