SOmetimes opens up Parliament?? Not only sometimes, but all the time. It's an annual thing, was on the TV a week or so back.

She is basically our figurehead...whilst that prick Blair runs the country our Queen goes around talking to people, throwing giant parties...when i was playing with a Scout band a few years ago we got to play at her 75th birthday (something around 75 at least)...pretty fun...that was the second time I met/saw the Queen and nattered with the Duke of Edinburgh...