Queen Elizabeth’s eating habits revealed – what 7 things will the British monarch never eat?

Living like a queen may evoke extravagance to non royals, but when it comes to meal times for Queen Elizabeth, her tastes are more subdued.

Spilling the beans on Her Majesty’s mealtimes, long time personal chef Darren McGrady told The Telegraph the queen eats to live, and even the delicacies she enjoys do not appear on her plate every day. One such delicacy is scrambled eggs with salmon – and at Christmas she will add truffle.

So what does the queen of England eat most days when she is alone and not at state functions? Apparently, her daily diet is routine. For breakfast, she likes Earl Grey tea and Special K cereal. For lunch and dinner, she eats proteins and vegetables with an afternoon sandwich snack. Her favourite sandwich is tuna and mayonnaise, with thin slices of cucumber and a dash of pepper. Also, the bread must be buttered.

Her go-to sweet treat is chocolate biscuit cake. He explains that there are several cakes on rotation when making up her menu, but the chocolate biscuit cake is requested again and again. However, according to McGrady, the queen is disciplined, she will only eat a tiny slice each day until the cake is finished.

Factoid – the chocolate biscuit cake recipe was first served to Queen Victoria and has been served to every monarch since – that is more than 100 years.

McGrady says she likes to use meat – usually venison – vegetables and fruit from her estates when she is at Balmoral or Sandringham, and it is all about the seasons. “You can send strawberries every day to the queen during the summer at Balmoral, and she’ll never say a word,” he said in a previous interview. “Try including strawberries on the menu in January and she’ll scrub out the line and say ‘Don’t dare send me genetically modified strawberries’.”