Friends in high places

And so today we learn that the Queen, no less, has made a donation from her private income (via the Privy Purse Charitable Trust) to Songbird Survival. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/26/eaqueen126.xml
The amount given remains undisclosed, but a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Queen gave £301,709 to 346 charities last year, qualifying this particular choice by saying,
“There [...]