WORLD : Queen Showing Age on 5 Note
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LONDON — Queen Elizabeth is finally showing her age on a new bank note which portrays Britain’s 64-year-old monarch with a double chin, wrinkles and slight bags under her eyes.
“It makes me look so old,” the tabloid Sun newspaper today quoted the Queen as telling artist Roger Withington, who designed the new note. “But then I suppose I am old.”
The Bank of England insisted the queen had aged gracefully on the turquoise note, which updates the one on the old blue five-pound ($8) note and other denominations by 25 years.
The monarch’s profile on coins and stamps also dates from the 1950s.
The new note appears Thursday. It is smaller and, the Bank of England said, harder to forge than its predecessor.
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