She has a poet who's paid in alcohol.

Elizabeth gets to appoint the UK's poet laureate, and in 2009, she tapped Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy for the position. She's the first woman to get to honor since it was created 350 years ago. The poet laureate is traditionally paid with a yearly salary of £5,750 (about $7,000) plus an entire barrel of sherry.

"I have found the experience energizing," Duffy told the Guardian in 2014, five years into her decade-long tenure. "So far it has been nothing but a joy."