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The Queen's shocking discovery about the Queen Mother
They might be one of the most composed families in the world, but even the royal family have a few public spats.
Celebrity Big Brother contestant Wayne Sleep, who is a legendary ballet dancer, revealed on the show that he was present for a tiff between the Queen and her late mother Queen Elizabeth at Clarence House.
The Queen Mother, who died in 2002 aged 101, was apparently after a drink at an official meeting when the Queen made a shocking discovery about her mother.
“I think some delegate from Ghana was over and invited to Clarence House,” Wayne explained on the Channel 4 show.
“And the Queen came along, just the three of them, and she went, ‘What would you like?’ She said, ‘I’d like a gin and tonic’.
“She said, ‘no worries at all’. Opened the cupboards. There were four empty gin bottles there and she turned and went, ‘Mummy!’.”
Wayne said the Queen was visibly shocked at the empty bottles in the cupboard.
However, according to former staff of the Queen Mother's, it was well known how fond of a gin she was.
Major Colin Burgess who worked for the Queen Mother told the Daily Mail that when he had his first-ever meeting with her, they went through a bottle-and-a-half of red wine.
“At noon, she had her first drink of the day — a potent mix of two parts of the fortified wine Dubonnet to one part of gin,” he said.
“This was followed by red wine with lunch and, very occasionally, a glass of port to end it. “
Major Burgess said the Queen Mother found 6pm to be the “earliest acceptable time” for an aperitif in the evening., where she would have a couple of martinis.
Then she would reportedly have a few glasses of pink champagne with dinner.
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