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Imagine the most ceremonial banquet at Buckingham Palace. Hundreds of candles in silver candelabra, porcelain that remembers Napoleon, and footmen whose movements are honed to the millimetre. You expect to find on Queen Elizabeth II’s plate a pheasant steeped in wine or black caviar served upon an icy pedestal. Now forget all that.

Step into her private dining room on an ordinary Tuesday. The woman whose face was struck on the coins of half the world sits at the table. Before her — the most ordinary box of Kellogg’s cornflakes. And here begins the first “shocking truth”. For decades, the Queen ate her breakfast not from silver bowls, but from yellow plastic Tupperware containers. She genuinely believed that an airtight lid was the only way to keep the flakes crisp. The greatest monarch in history was a devotee of kitchen plastic.

Today we shall tear the gilded tablecloth from the royal table and peer into the saucepans of ordinary British women. We shall learn why garlic became the empire’s chief enemy, how “Jam Pennies” helped the Queen keep her sanity beneath the weight of power, and what “mortal sin” a chef could commit by serving her strawberries on the wrong day. This is the chronicle of two Britains: one that dined by protocol, and one that survived on ration books while discovering the world of tinned goods and fast food.

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