The Queen’s Buckingham Palace desk is always ‘cluttered & untidy’ but staff are ‘banned from moving anything’

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AS much as we’d love to keep our desks spick and span when we’re at work, it’s not long before they’re covered in half-finished cups of tea and incomplete to-do lists. It’s just inevitable.

Well, it works out we’re not the only ones who can’t seem to keep our working space tidy – as The Queen herself has a “cluttered and untidy” desk according to a former Page.

The Queen’s desk seems ‘cluttered and untidy’ at first glance, her former Page has claimed – but Her Majesty ‘knows where everything is’

Speaking to the Daily Mail about Her Majesty’s morning routine, the old Buckingham Palace employee revealed that the desk is often covered in all sorts of paperwork.

They said: “It may appear cluttered and untidy to the average eye, but the Queen knows where everything is and hates it if anything is moved without her permission.”

The desk itself is an antique made by 18th Century designer Thomas Chippendale and was moved to Buckingham Palace from Clarence House when the Queen came to the throne in 1952.

Along with sheets of blotting paper and personal family photos, the Queen also has a double crystal inkwell on her desk.

The Queen reportedly ‘hates’ if staff move anything on her desk

The publication claims Her Majesty likes to sign her name in black on official documents while the green ink is saved for personal correspondence.

But before she can sit down at her desk to start work, The Queen starts the day with a bath measuring exactly seven inches deep and listening to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

While Her Majesty is in the bath, one of her dressers – who is overseen by her dressmaker and stylist Angela Kelly – will then lay out her outfit in the dressing room complete with “floor-to-ceiling mirrors and walk-in wardrobes”.

What’s more, it appears Prince Charles takes after his mother – as last month, he gave fans a glimpse of his VERY messy desk in his office at Balmoral.

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