As noted, Queen Elizabeth II famously exhibited wartime frugality and didn't promote excess, even with food. "She's not a foodie at all," Chef Darren McGrady told the Daily Mail. 'She eats to live; it's Prince Philip that lives to eat. He loves food, he's interested in food, [and] he wants to know where it comes from. The Queen, not so much." However, there was one major exception for the queen; she couldn't resist chocolate.
McGrady told the Food Network that this was her major food vice. "The Queen's a chocoholic. Loves anything chocolate on the menu," he said. In fact, when making menus for the queen's approval, McGrady could pretty much guarantee that she'd select the desserts with chocolate in them over anything else. "Anything we put on the menu that had chocolate on, she would choose, especially chocolate perfection pie," he said, per Express. McGrady later spoke about her choices in cakes which were, unsurprisingly, also chocolate centered. "There's also the chocolate ganache sponge cake, which she has for her birthday every year," he explained.
When it came to her favorite kind of chocolate, McGrady explained that dark chocolate was her absolute favorite. "Anything dark chocolate — the darker the better," he explained. In fact, the queen even kept little boxes of chocolate in her bedroom in case she wanted a late-night sweet.
