Jan 8, 2009, 10:00 GMT
Britain's Queen Elizabeth used to shop at UK budget store Woolworths.
The high street retailer - which closed its last branches yesterday (08.01.09) after falling into administration last year - was the monarch's favourite store as a child, and she used to save up her pocket money in order to buy toys and treats there.
The revelation come from the queen's former governess Marion Crawford, who wrote about Elizabeth's love of Woolworths in her 1950 memoir 'The Little Princess'.
In the book about her time in the royal household, Marion - who refers to Elizabeth by her childhood nickname 'Lilibet' - said: "Lilibet had a shilling a week pocket money until she was 14 or 15. Mostly she just saved this up for the summer or Christmas holidays.
"Being a frugal child, she preferred simple and inexpensive things she got for herself. Lilibet and I collected a large model farm buying most of the pieces at Woolworths."
As well as buying treats for herself, both Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret used to buy their Christmas gifts there too.
Writing in 1939 at Balmoral, Marion said: "I thought we should make some preparation, so I took them to Woolworths in Aberdeen, where we did some shopping and invested in the sixpenny china ornaments and brooches which usually made the bulk of their Christmas shopping."
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