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Even the Royal Family has joined the ranks of the dot-com investors hoping to make a fortune from Internet shares. Now it has emerged that the Queen has invested £100,000 in the Internet company getmapping.com. When it floats on the stock market next month, it’s expected to be valued at £40 million, so the Queen’s stake will be worth £1.2 million. But there’s growing concern about how successful investments in such stocks will be. An increasing number of City experts believe the Internet bubble will soon burst. Indeed many are comparing it with the first time a shares bubble fuelled by frenzied speculators burst.

Daily Mail, 20 March 2000