22 NOVEMBER 1969, Page 29

The rate for the job?

Sir: What an excellent press conference by% IRH The Duke of Edinburgh. but how dis- graceful that it should have to be on such an occasion—and in the United States—that Fist The Queen's difficult financial situation should be made public. Surely it is quite wrong—not to say iniquitous—that Her Majesty should be embarrassed in this way? Surely, there should be some means of Par- liament seeing that in future she gets a rise. at reasonable intervals, like everyone else who does a good job, without having to ask • for it?

Marie-Louise de Zulueta

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