She is the head of state, a job for which the president of the USA has to pull double duty while also being the executive. It is an incredibly tedious job, requiring her to go to endless factory openings funerals, and so on. She doesn’t really have to do those things, but she has done them dutifully for 75 years or so. As far as I’m concerned it’s amazing and probably does a measurable amount to contribute to the stability of the country. Can’t prove it, of course.

As an American citizen it is why I don’t mind presidents that I don’t like have a large secret service revenue, fat salary, and so forth both during and after their presidency.

EDIT: "secret service retinue", not "...revenue"

I don't know exactly what she does, but she always turns up and doesn't mess around or offend people, unlike the rest of her family.

She's like a grandma the nation respects, even though you suspect there might be a sinister side to her.

That’s what the article at play here discovered: she makes sure no law can ever touch her pot of gold. Oh and god forbid any law force them to use a seatbelt.

More than most women her age, I think it’s fair to say. If the Queen was lazy she could have abdicated two decades ago with some justification.