The queen likes simple unspiced food and abhors waste to the extent of warming up leftovers, according to a BBC documentary to be broadcast next week.
Celebrity chef Gary Rhodes spills the beans on life backstairs at Buckingham Palace, revealing details such as the ”traffic lights” on the corridors that turn to red when a royal approaches so that junior footmen can disappear into a handy closet.
Buckingham Palace on Tuesday denied the lights existed.
Rhodes, who worked in the palace as a teenager, told the public broadcaster’s Radio Times magazine that the queen likes her martini stirred and not shaken, unlike James Bond.
The programme, All the Queen’s Cooks, reveals the palace Sunday roast is recycled into cottage pies or rissoles.
The queen favours plain food, such as lamb cutlets or roast beef, and bread and butter pudding or ice cream to follow. She hates spicy food and tomato pips, because they get stuck in her teeth.
Taking afternoon tea — which consists of scones, potted shrimps, thin cucumber sandwiches without the crusts and a special royal blend of tea — is one of her favourite pastimes. – Sapa-DPA