{"id":260824,"date":"2025-07-13T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260824\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:52:10","slug":"king-charles-surprising-favourite-snack-is-a-regular-birthday-present-from-his-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/260824\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles’ surprising favourite snack is a regular birthday present from his staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most loyal of royal watchers will know that King Charles<\/a> and Queen Camilla<\/a> have their favourites when it comes to food, and they tend to stick to what they like.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for the royal couple’s staff, it seems that they know exactly what the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> likes the most, and he used to receive a regular birthday gift.<\/p>\n

Former royal butler Grant Harrold spoke to coffee retailer Coffee Friend<\/a> about the royal family’s coffee habits, but also revealed some details about what they would take with their tea and coffee.<\/p>\n

When asked if they had biscuits on the side, Grant said: “Absolutely! Whenever coffee or tea was ordered, biscuits were always there if guests wanted one. Not so much if it was afternoon tea.”<\/p>\n

On the family’s preferences, he shared that the late Queen’s “favourite sweet treat” was a chocolate biscuit cake, but King Charles’ cookie of choice is a little more surprising.<\/p>\n

\"Queen\u00a9 GettyQueen Camilla is more of a cake person than King Charles<\/p>\n

“The King’s favourite biscuit is a Bath Oliver biscuit,” Grant revealed. “I used to give him a packet for his birthday!”<\/p>\n

King Charles isn’t a huge coffee person<\/p>\n

It also seems that, while Queen Camilla, Prince William<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a> can’t live without a cup of coffee, King Charles, much like his parents, is more of a tea lover.<\/p>\n

\"king\u00a9 Getty ImagesKing Charles is known to prefer tea over coffee<\/p>\n

“The late Queen, Prince Philip<\/a>, and King Charles definitely prefer a cup of tea over coffee,” the former royal butler stated. “They were tea lovers to the very end.<\/p>\n

“They probably had coffee from time to time, but tea was their go-to. The only time I saw the Queen having a freshly brewed cup of coffee was after an event in the evening time.”<\/p>\n

As always, the family put etiquette first, as it appears that they prefer to have their coffee served in a more traditional way.<\/p>\n

\"Asian\u00a9 Getty ImagesSome royals can’t go a day without a cup of coffee \u2013\u00a0but not King Charles<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t say they wouldn’t have coffee in a mug,” Grant said, “but they would probably have it in a demi cup instead of a mug after dinner. During the day, they would have a teacup with a saucer.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “They were always offered milk and sugar after the coffee was poured. That is the correct etiquette for drinking coffee.”<\/p>\n

However, there’s one thing that King Charles does very differently, according to the former royal butler: “The King has famously said he prefers to have honey instead of sugar, so he would opt for that instead. It actually isn’t too bad!”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most loyal of royal watchers will know that King Charles and Queen Camilla have their favourites when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1203,1760,7710,519,7796],"class_list":{"0":"post-260824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-king-charles","13":"tag-royal-families","14":"tag-royal-family","15":"tag-royalty"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114844371827754276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}