15 surprisingly strict rules The Royals have to follow when they travel – The Queen doesn’t even have a passport & she can go anywhere in the world (With Pics)

13 THE QUEEN DOESN’T NEED A PASSPORT

If you’ve ever traveled outside of your home country, you’ll know this. Plan all you like – you won’t get anywhere without a passport. That applies if you’re American, British, or any other nationality. It also applies to members of the royal family – except for the Queen. In what is possibly the most bizarre exemption ever, Her Majesty the Queen doesn’t actually have a passport. Why? Because she’s the one issuing them. We’re not joking. Every government department in the UK has “Her Majesty” as its opening line. The IRS? That’s Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. The correctional facilities? They all start with “HRM: Her Royal Majesty’s…”

The Queen doesn’t have a passport or a driver’s license. You don’t need one when you’re the one issuing them. In all her 92 years, the Queen has never been asked to show a passport while traveling.

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so ridiculous. But it’s all true. The first page of a British passport reads: “Her Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance.” Dish them out she might, but the Queen is above having a passport.

12 YOU MUST SUPPORT BRITISH AIRWAYS

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a nation more patriotic than the British–  their tea culture can have people straight-up ghosted in offices for putting the milk in first. Part of the royal family’s job is to promote all things British, and that includes the way they travel. The Queen is reportedly quite the penny pincher. The Sun has reported that she walks around Buckingham Palace switching lights off, and Her Majesty has a strict royal travel budget. That could be because the British taxpayer is footing the bill, but the message is clear: you must support British Airways.

The royal travel budget cost British taxpayers $7 million in 2012. Regardless of their status, the royal family must support their nation and fly British Airways whenever possible.

Kate and Will have been known to skip chartered royal jets and fly just like the rest of us. Kate Middleton’s 2016 flight from Rotterdam in The Netherlands to London? She sat in seat 1A on a British Airways flight. Will and Harry actually flew coach from Memphis to Dallas in 2014, according to Hello. British Airways don’t do US domestic flights, so these two princes flew American Airlines. If you’re a British royal, you must fly British.

11 CAN’T FINISH MEALS BEFORE THE QUEEN

Presumably, this would be Her Majesty The Queen’s reaction if ever you dare break this rule. This well-documented rule applies as much when royals are traveling, as it does when they’re gracing the royal table at Buckingham Palace. Prince George and Princess Charlotte may still be toddlers, but table manners are something these kids are going to have to learn young. According to OK!, royal kids (and adults) aren’t allowed to finish their dinner before the Queen. If she stops chewing, so must they.

Whether home or away, the royals all follow the same chewing rule. If the Queen stops eating, so does everyone else. Royal kids can’t even finish their dinner before the queen.

The royal food rules literally know no end. Meghan Markle actually had to undergo professional training on how to sip tea. Etiquette specialist, Myka Meier told People: “They use their thumb and index finger to hold the top of the handle, while the middle finger supports the bottom. They also sip from the same spot, so the entire rim doesn’t have lipstick stains.” For coffee, the protocol is to “loop your index finger through the handle.” So, to sum this rule up? More than we’d ever want to handle? Pity on the seafood, though. Scampi spaghetti? Never, ever, ever.