- Like many Londoners, the Queen needs to find ways to keep cool this week as much of the UK scorches in a big heatwave.
- It turns out she has been using a £469.00 ($586) Dyson fan to keep cool as London reached 32 Celsius (89.6 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, and temperatures are expected to keep climbing.
- The fan could been seen in the palace as the Queen met with Boris Johnson on Wednesday, to confirm him as prime minister of the UK.
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London is sweltering as Europe is battling the second major heatwave of the summer, but the Queen Elizabeth II has found a way to keep cool.
The royal was photographed on Wednesday in Buckingham Palace with a Dyson HP02 Pure Hot + Cool Link fan in the background, helping to keep the building cool.
It appears to have been up and running when the Queen met Boris Johnson to confirm him as the UK’s new Prime Minister, part of the constitutional process by which a new leader of Britain is installed.
London faces temperatures of 33 Celsius (91.4 Fahrenheit) in a burst of unusual heat across Europe.
The fan can be found on Amazon for £469.00 ($586).
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The picture was shared by the royal family's official Twitter account.
Here is a close up of the fan behind the Queen:
The fan can also act as a heater, and marketing material says it also purifies the air.
More photos from the pair's meeting shows the fan in different stages of rotation, suggesting that it was on and cooling the room at the time:
London is expected to reach 37 C (98.6 F) on Thursday, and some forecasts suggest temperatures in England will exceed their all-time record of 38.5 C (101.3 F).
The Netherlands and France have already set all-time temperature records set this week.
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Johnson met the Queen after the previous prime minister, Theresa May, resigned a short while before in a separate royal audience.
During the meeting with Johnson, the Queen invited him to form a government, an offer traditionally extended to the new leader of the country's largest party.
He is expected to address the UK's House of Commons as prime minister for the first time on Thursday.