The Queen's favourite 'fast-food' has been revealed by one of her former chefs - and it's not a McDonald's Big Mac or a KFC bargain bucket.
The 95-year-old monarch is known to enjoy the occasional potted shrimp and chocolate cake, but her biggest guilty pleasure is said to be venison burgers eaten with a knife and fork.
Ex-royal cook Darren McGrady says HM prefers to flavour the game meat with cranberries rather than relish or secret sauce but never has it sandwiched between a bread bun.
Instead, she eats it naked on the plate.
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Speaking to Insider last year, Mr McGrady said: “It always tickled me at Balmoral, we would make our own burgers. They would shoot deer, and we would do venison burgers.
“There’d be gorgeous cranberry…stuffed into them, but we never set buns out."
He went on to say: "Her Majesty's Victorian upbringing dictates that the only thing you would pick up and eat with your fingers is afternoon tea.
"They would have burgers, but not the buns. So they would eat it with their knife and fork."
The Queen holidays at the Balmoral estate in Scotland almost every August or September - last year for the first time in decades without Prince Philip, following his death in April.
Mr McGrady worked as head chef at Buckingham Palace from 1982 until 1993, making food for Prince William and Harry, as well as Princess Diana.
He also said the monarch hates pizza and during his time in her service, not a single pizza was ever served.
When he wasn't prepping venison patties, the top chef was usually cooking up traditional French foods, he added.
Following the chef's revelation in August, online takeaway service Foodhub created the 'Ma'amburger'.
