Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch of all time, reigning for the past 95 years. Her Majesty has access to the most incredible ingredients thanks to a team of the world’s best chefs. The Queen will have tasted some unusual and memorable foods after spending so much time travelling the world and experiencing other monarchies and cultures. What are her favourite foods, though? Is there anything she absolutely refuses to eat?

Darren McGrady is a former Queen’s chef who previously shared insider information about the Queen’s eating habits.

He explained that Her Majesty “was never a foodie,” preferring traditional British and French cuisine.

This is in stark contrast to her husband, Prince Philip, who enjoyed experimenting with new ingredients and dishes.

Darren revealed in a series of YouTube Q&A videos that when he was her chef between 1982 and 1993, the monarch ate four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner.

In one clip, Darren discussed the Queen’s love of seafood, specifically Morecambe Bay potted shrimp on toast.

“They’re cooked and marinated in this secret spicy butter, and then the Queen would have them with warm toast, and the butter melts when you spread them on the warm toast,” he explained.

It comes after the chef stated that fish would be the monarch’s go-to starter.

“For a first course, she loved the Gleneagles pâté, which is smoked salmon, trout, and mackerel,” he told Hello! magazine.

And nothing beats fresh fish caught from one of the Royal Estate’s rivers, most likely Balmoral.

“She loved using ingredients from the estate, so if we had salmon from Balmoral from the River Dee, she’d have that,” Darren continued. It was a favourite of hers.

“We used a variety of dishes.”

“She is an absolute chocoholic,” said the former royal chef. She would order anything with chocolate on it that we put on the menu, especially the chocolate perfection pie.”

The Queen would not eat the ingredients because she isn’t very adventurous and prefers to stick to what she likes; instead, she saw food as a way to “live.”

Darren elaborated, saying, “She always ate to live rather than live to eat.”

“Prince Philip was a gourmet. He was always eager to try new dishes and was enthralled by new ingredients, whereas the Queen would have to read the entire recipe before saying, ‘yes okay, let’s try it.’

Former royal servant Charles Oliver explained this in his book Dinner at Buckingham Palace.

He wrote: “Inevitably there are one or two things the Queen and her husband do not like, and the hosts are duly warned in advance.

“The palace instruction states: neither the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh like oysters.