It’s hard for a regular person to imagine what it’s actually like to beQueen Elizabeth II.
But, apparently, the Head of the Commonwealth has been known to do exactly that.
Few staffers are on the premises, and they’re not decked out in the royal livery.
“At the end of lunch, I heard someone say: ‘I’ll do the washing-up.’
I turned round and there was the Queen in her yellow washing-up gloves.”
(Or the “telly,” as Queen Elizabeth would say.)
“She eats her dinner off a tray, looking at the television,” she said.
“She likes it.”
And it’s probably a comedy she’s viewing on the telly.
Journalist Phil Jones revealed inThe New Statesmanthat the queen told him she enjoyed watching “The Kumars at No.
42” and then proceeded to recite some of the grandmother character’s lines from the British comedy series.
Another of the monarch’s relatable mealtime habits is daily dessert.
She is especially fond of one specific throw in of cake (per Recipes Plus viaVanity Fair).
McGrady toldInsiderthat the queen also enjoys burgers, but etiquette dictates that she eat them a particular way.
“They would shoot deer, and we would do venison burgers.
“They would have burgers, but not the buns.
So they would eat it with their knife and fork.”
“She’d always have afternoon tea, wherever she was in the world.
It was time for tea.
So my first job was making scones.”
The tea sipped by the queen is from a brand anyone can buy at the grocery store: Twinings.
Perhaps more surprising is the monarch’s taste for a good tipple.
McGrady told theIndependentthat the queen’s favorite drink is a gin and Dubonnet.
She also likes sipping a glass of sweet German wine at dinnertime.
Marilyn Widdess of the BBC is brought in to handle makeup duties on that important day.
The queen has never let being a royal not to mention a nonagenarian!
In 2017, at age 91,she was spotteddriving her Jaguar home from Sunday morning church services.
Then, at 92,she was photographedon horseback andagainat age 93.
But her own family members are much more casual with her at home, especially the children.
Many of theroyal youngsters callthe queen “Granny.”
“I’m Gary,” the queen explained (perDaily Mail).
“He hasn’t learned to say Granny yet.”
“George is only two-and-a-half and he calls her Gan-Gan,” she said, perHello.
The queen’s late husband,Prince Philip, had an unusual nickname for her: Cabbage.
The adorable mispronunciation stuck.
Who can’t relate to that?
