The foods the Queen never eats

Being a royal doesn't mean that you don't have to watch what you eat, as it's emerged that the Queen doesn't eat pasta, potatoes, or garlic.

The Royal chef who has cooked for the monarch for 15 years, Darren McGrady, has revealed that the Queen doesn't eat starchy foods unless for a state dinner.

McGrady has also detailed the Queen's daily diet, revealing that it centres around grilled fish or chicken with two types of vegetables. Along with this simple meal, she also enjoys big bowls of salad and fresh fruit.

"We can never serve anything with garlic or too much onions," McGrady said. "We also couldn't serve meat that was rare, as she liked her meat more well done."

But just like us, the Queen has her guilty food pleasures, with chocolate biscuit cake being her weakness, so much so that it travels with her all over the country.

If Her Majesty was travelling to Windsor Castle and there was uneaten chocolate cake left over, a senior chef will travel on a train with the dessert in tow.

"Now the Chocolate Biscuit Cake is the only cake that goes back again and again and again everyday until it's all gone," McGrady said. "She'll take a small slice every day until eventually there is only one tiny piece, but you have to send that up, she wants to finish the whole of that cake."

Good to know that Royals aren't exempt from sugar cravings!