Queen Elizabeth's favourite items ranged from common purchases to personally commissioned one of a kinds.
The Queen's impact on the nation reaches further than her royal duties. Her thoughts, opinions and tastes trickled down through the country and would often leave a lasting impression on others. A "Royal Appointment" seal of approval was handed to countless products despite remaining private on what some of her absolute favourites were.
Queen Elizabeth may not have enjoyed a normal life but she did take pleasure in familiar day-to-day luxuries the average person would be familiar with. Her taste in cosmetics, cakes and music was similar to millions of others through some preferences fluctuated in luxuriousness here and there.
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Chef Darren McGrady, the former personal chef to the monarch, said the Queen enjoyed a standard chocolate biscuit cake with her tea and would usually ensure it was dusted off. He said: "This cake is probably the only one that is sent into the royal dining room again and again until it has all gone. If there is anything left when she has it at Buckingham Palace, it then goes to Windsor Castle so she can finish it there."
As a girl, a jam penny was one of her favourite sandwiches, first introduced in the royal nursery. The simple jam sandwich cut into the size of an old English penny followed her through life and remained a staple of her diet alongside a cucumber, cream cheese and mint variant.
Coronation Street has been the Queen's favourite television programme for decades but a BBC sci-fi series also caught her eye multiple times. Christopher Eccleston's role in Dr Who went down a storm with the monarch as it was a guilty pleasure of hers. A source also confirmed she was a fan of ITV drama Downtown Abbey and "would point things they have got wrong, partly because she is familiar with Highclere Castle."
The Queen was a creature of habit and would enjoy a gin and Dubonnet before lunch. Doctors advised her to give up the drink at the ripe age of 95 but the same year the drink would feature the words "By appointment to HM the Queen", along with an official crest.
During her coronation in 1953, the Queen was famously crowned wearing Clarins cosmetics, after commissioning the company to create a shade of lipstick that went with her coronation robes. It is rumoured the brand was regularly used throughout her life and Ever Matte powder and Hand and Nail cream were among her must-haves.
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