This is the secret signal the Queen gives to staff that she is bored with talking to you

THE Queen has secret signals to let her staff know when she is ready to stop talking to someone, it has been revealed.

According to royal historian Hugo Vickers, if the Queen is at an event and she wants to end a chat, she will shift her bag from her usual left side on to the right.

It has been revealed that when the Queen swaps her handbag to the other hand, it means she is boredHe says her eagle-eyed aides will then notice and usher the Queen away in a polite fashion.

She also uses her bag as a symbol she is ready to leave an event, as when she places it on a table, it gives her ladies-in-waiting their five-minute warning that she will soon be off.

Hugo told magazine: “It would be very worrying if you were talking to the Queen and saw the handbag move from one hand to the other. Luckily, they’d let you down easy.”

And if the Queen is really in a hurry to leave, Hugo says she starts twisting her wedding ring around her finger.

But today she seemed to be enjoying herself while presenting leeks to the Royal Regiment of Wales at Lucknow Barracks in Wiltshire to mark St David’s Day.

This is because her black bag remained firmly on her left arm the whole time.

Last week, we revealed what the Queen has on her menu, which includes Gordon’s gin, tiny jam sandwiches and loads of HP sauce.

And according to her former personal chef, bowls of Special K cereal, finger sandwiches and chocolate biscuits are her guilty pleasures.