The Queen was concerned that police were eating all the nibbles left out for guests ahead of the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, it has been claimed at the phone-hacking trial.
According to an email sent by the News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman in 2005 to his then editor Andy Coulson, she was “upset” that all the “nuts being left out” were being scoffed by palace officers.
Andrew Edis QC, counsel for the prosecution, told the Old Bailey jury on Thursday that the Queen is “irritated by this”, according to Goodman’s email.
Goodman told Coulson: “Queen furious about police stealing bowls of nuts and nibbles left out for her in apartments in the BP/Queen’s corridor. She has a very savoury tooth and staff leave out cashews, Bombay Mix, almonds etc. Prob is that police on patrol eat the lot.
“She started marking the bowls to see when the levels dipped,” he added.
There was laughter in court as the judge interrupted proceedings, jesting that these were all “unfounded allegations”.
