The Queen’s common touch: from Tupperware to her electric heater

Stories of the monarch doing the washing up and slipping her corgis toast under the table always proved popular

Though she lived a very different life, the Queen embraced a few common touches that endeared her to many of her subjects.

Famously, she stored her morning cornflakes in Tupperware containers, an incongruous sight among the gilt and silverware at Buckingham Palace, a fact revealed by a tabloid journalist who managed to work undercover as a footman for two months.