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The Benefit of Being the Queen

Queen Elizabeth II actually hired a stand-in to make sure that the sun doesn't get in her eyes. The woman is named Ella Slack, she is roughly the same size and stature as the queen, and she gets paid extra on particularly sunny days. Slack is not allowed to sit on the throne, but she has made a ton of money just pretending to be someone else in the sunshine. 

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