The Queen has eaten the same sandwich every day since she was a child according to her former private chef.
Former Royal chef Darren McGrady was in charge of making some of the Queen's favourite meals. He previously revealed how Her Majesty liked hamburgers without the bun and a cranberry sauce instead of ketchup.
However, since she was a youngster, she has always enjoyed eating sandwiches - with one combination proving to be a staple.
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Mr McGrady told the Express there are three sandwiches that always make an appearance in The Queen's afternoon tea platter, both for her own private enjoyment and also when she has guests.
He said: “ The Queen was served jam pennies in the nursery as a little girl, she’s had them for afternoon tea ever since." To make the sweet treat, he said the jam was home-stewed using Balmoral fruit including strawberries.
Mr McGrady added the formula for the sandwich was "simple" with just a little bit of bread and butter, plus the layer of jam. Once the sandwich is assembled, he used a circle cutter to stamp them out.
He said: "They were called pennies after the size of the old English penny."
Another sandwich that always made an appearance at Royal parties was the cucumber sandwich. But he explained preparing this wasn't as simple as slicing up a cucumber and sticking it between two pieces of bread.
The chefs would peel the flesh of the cucumber with a potato peeler, all the way down to the watery seeds. Instead of butter, they would layer the bread with a generous smearing of cream cheese and a hint of fresh spearmint, before adding the cucumber ribbons.
Finally, the cheese and tomato sandwich made up another staple of The Queen's afternoon tea routine.
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