Queen Elizabeth II Drinks This Much Alcohol At 92; Is It Allowed?

Queen Elizabeth II may be 92, but she still regularly enjoys her favorite alcoholic drink.

Kate Whitfield, a journalist for Express, said that there have been differing reports regarding the amount of alcohol Her Majesty consumes. But her former royal chef, Darren McGrady, has finally set the record straight.

While speaking with CNN, he said that the Queen would be pickled if she drank gin and Dubonnet, white wine, dry Martinis, and champagne every day. Rumors claimed that the Queen consumes for glasses of her favorite alcohol, which is the double the recommended weekly allowance created by the NHS.

“She’d be pickled if she drank that much. All I said was she likes a gin and Dubonnet. That’s her favorite drink. She’s doesn’t wake up in the morning and have a large gin and tonic. Just in the evening. She certainly doesn’t drink four glasses a day,” he said.

McGrady also talked about the Queen’s eating habits and said that she is one of those people that eat to live. Prince Philip, on the other hand, lives to eat.

“[The Queen] is not a foodie. She eats to live, unlike Prince Philip who loves to eat and would stand and talk food all day. When she dines on her own, she’s very disciplined. No starch is the rule,” he said.

In related news, Her Majesty also made headlines this week after it was reported that she won’t abdicate the throne anytime soon because of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

“I don’t think she’s going anywhere, anytime soon. I think the Queen sees what those boys and their wives bring… Princess Charlotte, already at the age of 3, knows how to work for a crowd. Maybe now through her grandchildren, she can see a way of just staying on the crest of what we have,” a source told Daily Mail.

And if the monarch won’t abdicate anytime soon, it’s possible that Prince Charles will become King when he’s 80 years old.