<b>By Tudor Lickspittle, Royal Correspondent

Laden with buckets, mops and bottles of Flash, a loyal group of Suffolk housewives were off to London today as part of the Clean For The Queen campaign.</b>

An Eastern Counties coach company donated the bus to get the women and their feather dusters to Buckingham Palace to help get the place spruced up for Her Majesty's 90th birthdays.



The nationwide campaign was started by Country Life Magazine, an up-market glossy version of The Suffolk Gazette.

Cabinet Ministers, celebrities and community leaders have joined in the fun, cleaning litter from the streets, scraping chewing gum off the pavements and clearing carrot-filled vomit from outside pubs.

But the jolly ladies decided to treat the Queen to a right Royal clean up in her own home.

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mrs-mopps-queen.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-3320"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mrs-mopps-queen.jpg" alt="mrs-mopps-queen" width="600" height="400" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3320" /></a><i>Scrubbing up well: Suffolk ladies prepare to visit the Palace</center></i><br><br>

"We're doing her passageways, en-suite and ballrooms," chirped Ena Jiffy from Creeting St Mary.

"No doubt we'll while away the journey singing Ten Green Bottles and Whistle While You Work while flirting with the driver in a girlish way.

"We've got Cillit Bang, Mr Sheen and Parazone and we've borrowed the latest Dyson to get all those Corgi hairs off the carpet. Dusting those big glittery chandeliers will be a challenge but my Bert duct-taped a feather duster to a washing line pole and we'll do our best not to smash them to smithereens like that episode with Del Boy and grandad.

"We are proud to represent the Suffolk Clean For The Queen campaign and it will be wonderful if she stops her royal duties for a little while and makes us a cuppa with a HobNob after we've bleached the toilets,  dusted all her old books and jewellery and scrubbed her doorstep.

"We thought it would be such a shame if people dropped in for her 90th birthday and the place looked like a tip."

<center><a href="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/old-bus.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-3321"><img src="http://www.suffolkgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/old-bus.jpg" alt="old-bus" width="350" height="262" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3321" /></a><i>Luxury: Hi-tech bus will take the Mrs Mopps to London</center></i><br><br> 

Last night Buckingham Palace issued a statement about the Suffolk charabang outing of cleaning ladies.

It said: "One will be delighted to meet the ladies from Ipswich and One will be giving them all an honorary headscarf and Clean for The Queen tabard for their hard work. It will be lovely to see the Palace all shiny for the Big Days."

* The Queen celebrates TWO birthdays each year. Her actual birthday is on April 21 and there is another on a Saturday in June when she traditionally goes on a hen party to Brighton.

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