Despite receiving an annual allowance in the order of € 40 million, paid by the taxpayer, Queen Elizabeth II decided to cancel the traditional Christmas party for employees promoted by the Buckingham Palace.
* According to a spokesman for the monarch "straitened circumstances" that have affected the UK during these months are the main cause for the cancellation of the event, which would cost about $ 80,000 to the royal coffers. But the Windsor family end-of-the year party is still on…