Royal Budget: The royal bean counters at...

Royal Budget: The royal bean counters at Buckingham Palace say it will cost the equivalent of $106 million this year to keep Queen Elizabeth and her family in the style to which they have become accustomed. The queen is getting a raise from $9.6 million to $15 million a year; washing the royal dirty clothes will cost about $119,700, and $404,700 will fund four garden parties.

Marla’s Money?: Marla Maples apparently is laying claim to some of Donald Trump’s dwindling fortune. In a magazine interview, she scorns Trump’s estranged wife, Ivana, as a spendthrift and makes interesting use of the word we . “She wants a billion but we just don’t have it,” says Maples, who considers Ivana to be the high roller. “It’s outrageous spending I can’t even conceive of,” she said.

Tumbles: Romanian Nadia Comaneci, 1976 Summer Olympics champion, says she now is happy in Canada and plans to write a book about her homeland. She said in New York Monday that late Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu made life difficult because she was more popular than he was. Former friend Constantin Panait helped her escape from Romania, then held her prisoner, she claimed. “It was bad, very bad. He beat me. I don’t want to remember this.”

Dog Days: One day last week, Vice President Dan Quayle went on a four-state campaign swing and was late at every stop because of Chili, the Quayles’ English setter. The pup took to the wilds of Massachusetts Avenue in front of the vice president’s residence. A motorist picked up the friendly dog, and, seeing two young girls playing in a yard a few block away, left the dog with them. The vice president and his daughter, Corinne, 11, went to the house to pick him up, delaying Quayle’s trip.