Cooked for by personal chefs, the Queen follows a light diet of mostly meat, fish and vegetables - with the odd sweet treat thrown in. A former personal chef to her majesty has given an insight into the monarchs eating habits - her favourite treats and her absolute no-go foods.
Darren McGrady has spoken prolifically about what it is like to work for the royals.
He said in a previous interview that a red leather-bound book of menus, written in French, would be sent up to the Queen each week, containing a variety of recipes for the monarch to choose from.
He said: We prepared the menus three days ahead so we could get the food in.
"The chefs would pick the menus and she would put a line through the ones she didn't want.
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Sometimes she'd put a line through it all and put something different - like if she was having dinner with Prince Andrew, his favourite was crme brulee with Sandringham oranges."
Something that might seem startling to normal people is the fact that, at the time he was cooking for her, the Queen had never tried pizza.
The Queen is reportedly not a fan of heavy, starchy foods - and avoids them where possible.
Speaking to US weekly earlier this year, the chef said: In the years that I cooked at [Buckingham] Palace, the queen never had pizza.
"I didn't start cooking pizza until I moved across to Kensington Palace.
He said he regularly cooked Italian foods when working for Princess Diana and Prince Charles.
He said: Whether it was risotto or polenta and healthy eating, when Princess Diana and Prince Charles ate together Italian food was often on the menu.
"Princess Diana loved Italian food too as it was simple and she had lots of salads and for the boys some Italian pizza, what boys don't love pizza? I know William and Harry did.
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Darren did say that Queen was a fan of one classic junk food we all like to enjoy - but not in the way most of us would have it.
It always tickled me at Balmoral, we would make our own burgers, he explained.
They would shoot deer, and we would do venison burgers.
There'd be gorgeous cranberry and everything stuffed into them, but we never set buns out.
They would have burgers, but not the buns, so they would eat it with their knife and fork.
She also has a soft spot for chocolate - something that has been well documented by her many royal chefs.
Mr McGrady said: She is absolutely a chocoholic.
Anything we put on the menu that had chocolate on, she would choose, especially chocolate perfection pie."
But the key element of the monarchs eating routine is the very British afternoon tea.
According to McGrady, the Queens afternoon tea often comes with a honey and cream sponge cake, as well as chocolate biscuit cake, which Her Majesty adores.
According to the former chef, McGrady, two types of sandwiches are obligatory at High Tea, such as cucumber, smoked salmon, and egg with mayonnaise or ham and mustard with no crusts.
Additionally, the Queen enjoys jam pennies buttered bread with jam cut into small penny-sized circles.
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