Welcome Loyal Subjects!

By Popular demand, Your Queen has entered the blogosphere!

Due to the tsunami of activity occurring in our wonderful and prosperous Kingdom, I had to agree that a Queen's Diary (of sorts) was not only appropriate but necessary. Even though I am so very busy. Even though I am up all night with a new baby that the King cannot seem to hear crying - though he can always hear the dinner bell. Even though I have a country to run, and the King spends more time toddling around the golf course that attending to ...

Well! Every woman has her work cut out for her!

So here we go!

Today, what YOU need to know is:

Although the entire nation is in economic meltdown, the finances of the Kingdom are SOUND. As Chief Financial Officer of the Kingdom, I was quite leery of investing in those dubious sub-prime securities. I mean, who thought THAT was a good idea. Rope the financially challenged into financially challenging loans? And, when that Maddoff creature came calling, well, I called the guards!

Luckily, the Kingdom of Rios paid off it's World Bank loans upon my ascension to the throne three years ago. Thank the Goddess we are blessed with natural resources to rival any nation. Gold (I have a secret weapon for that!), silver, platinum, uranium, coal, oil, coastal fisheries, arable land to rival the US. With a sound hand (and yes I have two!) we are in the Queen-Bird Seat. So not worry. We are wonderfully positioned to prosper through ten millennium.

So, if you see my husband, the King, please tell him how happy you are, won't you?

We Are! Rios!