Queen's Luggage Weighs Four Tons

by Tom Sykes May 25, 2012 6:20 AM EDT

Among a number of other well-known and oft recycled Regal factoids in today's Daily Mail, this gem:

"When travelling abroad the Queen's luggage weighs more than four tons, including 60 vials of homeopathic medicines, carried in a special leather case, without which she won’t travel anywhere.

"She has even been known to treat one of her corgis homeopathically after the animal cut its foot.

"When she was asked why she used the treatment, she replied: ‘If it’s good enough for me, it should be good enough for my dogs.’"

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