| NORFOLK | County containing Sandringham House where the Queen and the royal family traditionally spend Christmas (7) |
| MALTA | An island country where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh once lived (5) |
| HAMPSHIRE | County with the dog rose as its flower, site of the Mountbatten's family home Broadlands, where the Queen and Prince Philip spent their honeymoon (9) |
| BARBOUR | Brand of classic wax jackets and countrywear awarded three royal warrants each in turn from the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen and the Prince of Wales (7) |
| KERB | The king, the queen and the bishop on the edge (4) |
| FRANCIS | Jockey to the Queen and the Queen Mother who went on to write 42 novels including Dead Cert and Whip Hand (7) |
| EDWARD | Forename of the Earl of Wessex, the youngest of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's four children (6) |
| DOWAGER | Comic supporting act: the Queen and the Queen Mum? (7) |
| BOTHERED | The two together, the Queen and the editor, are troubled (8) |
| READING | A large town in the county where Windsor Castle and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst are located |
| OXON | Abbreviated name for the county containing the Vale of the White Horse and parts of the Chilterns with the snake's-head fritillary as its flower (4) |
| ROLLER | File past the queen and the poor will benefit from it (6) |
| ERMINE | The Queen and the claim she lays to a fur (6) |
| ERROR | It's wrong to get right between the Queen and the gold (5) |
| RELIEF | File past the queen and the poor will benefit from it (6) |
| CHAMBERS | George III's architect who designed the pagoda and orangery at Kew Gardens for Princess Augusta and the Royal Academy's first purpose-built home, Somerset House (8) |
| WAUGH | Author of Brideshead Revisited who fictionalised his career in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards in the Sword of Honour trilogy (5) |
| AVIEMORE | Which railway station saw the collision of the Flying Scotsman and the Royal Scotsman this year? (8) |
| GREENWICH | London location of the Royal Naval College and the Royal Observatory (9) |
| OTHERS | Doctors host the queen - and the rest (6) |
