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Queen Camilla Photographed on Low Key Christmas Shopping Trip

Her Majesty picked up a few tins of festive cinnamon and orange black tea, priced at £13.95 each.

King Charles’ friends are known to be a such loyal customers of the Chelsea department store Fortnum & Mason that one Qatari sheikh once gave him a “Fortnums” carrier bag stuffed full of cash for one of his charities. Now it seems his wife, Queen Camilla, is a loyal customer, too—she was spotted Wednesday doing a spot of Christmas shopping at the luxury shop. Her Majesty picked up a few tins of festive cinnamon and orange black tea, priced at £13.95 each. The queen was spotted by a man who was in the store buying the same tea for his wife. The store has long been proud of its association with royalty and its website boasts that the late Queen Elizabeth II used to do her Christmas shopping in the store, a trip which had to “be arranged months in advance.” The store says that her choices often included “breakfast trays, breakfast sets, garden furniture and hostess trolleys.”