Ok, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, 
despite the multitude of titles and crowns which perch on her 83 year old head, is technically not the Queen Mum although she is the queen and she is a mum.
She won’t be granted that overly-familiar, unofficial Queen Mum title until she steps down and Prince Charles gets the nod and the crown. That’s not likely to occur soon mainly because she doesn’t seem like to like Bonnie Prince Charlie 
very much, with good reason, but she does like all those trappings of queenship.
If she ever does decide to abdicate, retire, be put out to pasture, and Prince Harry ascends to the throne, will that make Liz the Queen Grand Mum? Then again, Harry is the offspring of Lady Diana and the queen really didn’t like her!
More to the point, does anyone care about all this crap?
Well, not much on this side of the Pond but in merry old England many, not all, care about the queen mumship and all the other folderol surrounding the anachronistic House of Windsor.
Now Liz has gone on record to demonstrate that she cares about the shenanigans going on involving everything from M.P. toilet seats to country homes being charged to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, i.e. the British purse.
Don’t you just love those titles?
An earlier British monarch was said to have expressed her upsetment with the line, “We are not pleased,” using that royal “we” as American politicians do to deflect from the egoistical “I” when they actually mean “I.”
Anyway, good Queen Liz is not pleased with the ongoing scandal in Parliament or as she put it to her inept Prime Minister Gordon Brown, 
she is “deeply troubled:” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183468/The-Queen-tells-Gordon-Brown-deeply-troubled-MPs-expenses.html.
Crude Americans would just say they were pissed.
Brown responded that he is “appalled and angered” over the profligacy of some fellow parliamentarians, expressing an indignation comparable to Nancy Pelosi’s over waterboarding when she knew about it for years.
Gordo undoubtedly knew what was going on as well since billing the government had for years been the ruse Brit pols employed to convince the rabble they were not greedily seeking pay hikes and instead merely asked that they be compensated for necessary expenditures. Like toilet seats and country homes.
As Reuters reported, “Britain’s 646 legislators receive an annual salary of almost 65,000 pounds and claimed 93 million pounds in expenses last year, an average of 144,000 pounds each:” http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090516/wl_nm/us_britain_politics_expenses. For the math-challenged, that’s 210,000 pounds or around $300,000 a year–for blustering.
British commoners are suffering though the same recesssion/depression/fiscal chaos/bank failures/financial upheavals as we are but nothing seems to bother the elites since they are above it all. That sort of rings a bell with regard to America’s overpaid blusterers in Congress, no?
Blimey! Charlie Rangel 
couldn’t cheat any better! . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)