Queen questions financial crisis
The Queen has asked if "complacency" contributed to the financial crisis, during an informal conversation with Bank of England officials.
During her visit to the Bank, she also asked whether the Financial Services Authority (FSA) "did not have the teeth" to respond to the crisis.
The Queen was responding to a briefing by a member of the Bank's financial services committee.
The FSA said the regulatory system had been completely changed since 2008.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also toured vaults full of gold bars during their tour.
The couple also signed a million pound note each for the Bank's guest book and the Queen was shown the very first banknote she had signed on 29 November, 1937, aged 11.
Four years ago, during the height of the global crisis, the Queen had asked academics at the London School of Economics: "Why did nobody notice it?".
(continued, because the filthy rich are fully insulated from the consequences of their risk taking and speculations on the stock markets ma'am)
