A Royal Wii – For Her Royal Highness

Last week, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth received a unusual gift   but truly a royal one,  a gold plated Nintendo Wii gaming console. THQ  which is launching the “BIG” series of games for the Wii delivered this unique one of a kind,gaming console to the delivered to the Buckingham Palace.

People Magazine (UK) had already reported  in January that, Her Royal Highness is having a great time playing ten pin bowling in Prince William’s Wii which was his Christmas gift from girlfriend Kate.

Although there is no official comment from the Queen, it is a well known fact that she owns a good gadget collection which includes a IPod, Blackberry etc and a Royal Wii would be a perfect addition to it.

Even though,it may not be true that the Queen, aged 83 is smashing with the Royal Wii,it has sure caught everyone's attention  which was the main idea in the first place.

The Queen's Question

It seems Her Majesty too is hit by the global meltdown.Apparently the Queen of Britain has lost  estimated £25 million of her personal fortunes in the credit crunch.

The Queen had visited London School of Economics last week and had a briefing from professors on the economic meltdown.

Professor Luis Garicano, director of research at the London School of Economics’ management department, was quoted as saying by the British media that “The queen asked me, ‘If these things were so large, how come everyone missed them,"

That is a simple question and that's why its hard to answer.If you think about it,its actually surprising. What started as a normal real estate slump in the US has now become so huge that  Dyeing factories in Tirupur  are operating only 3 days a week. Why did they let it develop so huge? after all the sub prime crisis is been known for almost two years. What was seen as a credit crunch in US  has now become global crisis which has triggered layoffs in almost every growing sector in every major economy.

It seems in this  Global world,one man's poison is not another man's food but everyone's pain.