Queen accepts gold bar after returning admirer’s £50 note

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Mr Vaz, from Rainham, Essex, then began supporting people with mental health issues and turned to the Queen when things got really tough.  He said: “She has been really supportive and helped


me through difficult times and I took my struggles I took a lot of solace from her letters.  “I hope she maybe she can put it somewhere, look upon it or maybe she can put it with the rest


of the bullion.“  Paying tribute Queen Elizabeth he said: “She has been Queen since I have been born. I am very proud to be British and she holds the country together.  “She is the greatest


monarch we've had in my life time. I have seen her two or three times, including at the Silver Jubilee 1977.”