No More Martinis: The Queen Advised to Give Up Her Favorite Drink

[NurseJackie]

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/10/the-queen-advised-to-give-up-daily-drinking

No More Martinis: The Queen Advised to Give Up Her Favorite Drink
At the advice of her doctors, the 95-year-old will forgo her evening cocktail.

Queen Elizabeth is known to enjoy a tipple but Her Majesty is giving up her daily alcoholic beverage at the advice of her doctors.

While she is in good physical health, the Queen, who has been seen using a cane in recent days including Thursday in Wales where she addressed the Welsh Parliament, has been advised to give up her evening martini as she prepares for one of the most important periods of her reign, Vanity Fair can report.

According to two sources close to the monarch, doctors have advised the Queen to forgo alcohol except for special occasions to ensure she is as healthy as possible for her busy autumn schedule and ahead of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations next June. “The Queen has been told to give up her evening drink which is usually a martini,” says a family friend. “It’s not really a big deal for her, she is not a big drinker but it seems a trifle unfair that at this stage in her life she’s having to give up one of very few pleasures.”

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Aside from her nightly dry martini, the Queen is a fan of Dubonnet and gin, which was the Queen Mother’s favorite drink. Last year Buckingham Palace released its own brand of gin, and the Queen allows sparkling wine to be produced from her vines at Windsor Great Park.

(more at link above)

[multigraincracker]

1. I bow down to Princess

Shirley Temple. God save the Queen.

[betsuni]

2. If she dies soon it's totally the doctor's fault.

Asking for trouble. Martinis kill germs.

[NurseJackie]

3. That's what I tell myself too.

Martinis kill germs

That's what I tell myself too. (And if any survive, I care less about it.) 🍸🍸

[Marcuse]

18. Throat sanitizer.

[Vinca]

4. The royal doctor needs to get a fucking grip. The woman is 95. Let her enjoy her martini.

[NurseJackie]

7. I agree with you.

She's not a lush. It's medicinal... as I like to say.

[wryter2000]

13. No kidding

I bet giving it up makes no difference in her health at all. This is just puritanical.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. There's a lady in a group I belong to

Everyone in the group's head turned one day when she said she's 79. What? The whispered consensus was about 60-62. I asked her one day what she did to remain young. She said before dinner every day a glass of Dewar's followed by a brisk 20 minute walk.

I think there is something there that cleans, or stimulates, the liver. Everything happens in the liver.

[Aristus]

23. That's really bad medicine.

Alcohol doesn’t cleanse the liver. It’s the other way around. The liver metabolizes alcohol. I try to discourage my patients from any action they have been told “cleanses” the body. That’s what the liver and kidneys are for.

[CTyankee]

26. Yes, indeed. I was advised to cut out my "wine o'clock" habit because my liver enzymes were high.

This was causing me intestinal "distress" to put it mildly so I stopped. Subsequent tests of my liver function proved the point beyond doubt. My liver enzymes were at a normal level. No more mad dashes to the bathroom and unpleasant (to say the least) if I didn't make it in time.

I think of those days when I am tempted to have even a glass of champagne on New Year's eve. And I am kind of proud that I abstained.

Because of my devotion to Merlot wine, I have a Merlot made by F.R.E. that is "alcohol removed." It has the great taste of their regular Merlot, but without the alcohol. But so what?

I wish there were a category of alcohol abstainers who really enjoy life without being seen as a killjoy to others just because they abstain. I am happily writing my second book on art history with a clearer mind and feeling super good, even at my advanced age.

[RobinA]

30. I Am An Alcohol

abstainer who abstains because I was born without any ability to enjoy the taste of alcohol. It is very unpleasant to me. I simply refuse to accept any "killjoy" notions. I drank my share in college, but eventually as I got older I just said, "Why?" I hate it, end of story. Anybody who feels some kind of way about my not drinking needs to examine their own issues. I don't foist my drug of choice on people (or wouldn't if it were completely legal), so drink your alcohol and don't worry about me.

[CTyankee]

32. Doesn't everybody who drinks does so because they like the way it makes them feel?

Otherwise, why do it?

[róisín_dubh]

33. Could've been my great grandma...

She was a fan of the Dewars. Lived to be 98.

[lapucelle]

6. Leave Lilibet alone!!!

Meanwhile...

The Queen is picked up on microphone calling world leaders “irritating” in rare diplomatic intervention

In a candid intervention ahead of next month’s COP26 climate change conference in Scotland, Her Majesty expressed her frustration that the leaders of some of the most polluting countries on the planet may skip the summit.

The Queen will attend the COP26 summit, organised by the United Nations, alongside many members of her family including the Prince of Wales & the Duchess of Cornwall and the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge.

Speaking on a visit to Wales, The Queen was heard saying that “it’s irritating” The leaders of countries including Australia, China and Russia have failed to to commit the conference.

Speaking to the Duchess of Cornwall and Llywydd of the Senedd Elin Jones, Her Majesty said: “Extraordinary isn’t it?

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“We only know about people who are not coming and it’s really irritating when they talk, but they don’t do.”

A Buckingham Palace spokesperson declined to comment on Her Majesty’s remarks, but royal sources told the Daily Mirror that her words offered a “rare intervention” into diplomatic matters.

https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/queen/the-queen-is-picked-up-on-microphone-calling-world-leaders-irritating-in-rare-diplomatic-intervention-167100/

[Roy Rolling]

8. Cannabis, m'lady?

[twodogsbarking]

9. The Royal Bong please.

[TNNurse]

10. Asking any person her age to stop their one daily drink,

shows a true lack of compassion and common sense.

She should find a new doc.

[rpannier]

11. Solution: Schedule a lot of special events

Today is the Feast of Maximum Occupancy - Cheers
Today is a celebration of the birth of someone named Brian - Cheers
and so on

[sarge43]

12. What, they afraid she's going to die young?!

It's not like she's tossing down a bottle of gin a day.

[RobinA]

34. My Guess

would be that they're afraid of falls.

[Joinfortmill]

14. A bit of alcohol can be a good thing.

[NurseJackie]

15. Amen! 👍🍸🍸

[Danascot]

16. Churchill started his day with a glass of whiskey or brandy

and went though an estimated 42,000 bottles of champagne during his lifetime but he only lived to 90. Maybe it was the cigars.

[NurseJackie]

19. I believe you're right about that. Also, you reminded me of this...

Maybe it was the cigars.

I believe you're right about that.


Also, you reminded me of this...

https://www.dw.com/en/winston-churchills-half-smoked-cigar-sells-for-12000-at-auction/a-40935091

Winston Churchill’s half-smoked cigar sells for $12,000 at auction

A half-smoked cigar by the late formerBritish Prime Minister Winston Churchill sold at an online auction house has fetched $12,262 (€10,353).

Boston-based RR Auction said the 4-inch (10-centimeter) cigar bearing the "La Corona / Winston Churchill" label was bought by a Florida collector on Wednesday evening.

The cigar was saved by British airman Corporal William Alan Turner when he and his crew flew the wartime prime minister and his wife to and from the UK to Paris in May 1947.

[Aristus]

24. Everyone mentions Churchill's wild self-indulgence and that he

lived to be 90.

Everyone forgets that for the last fifteen years or so of his life, he suffered a number of strokes, and was in pain all the time.

[CTyankee]

31. was he medicated (I mean doctor prescribed medication)?

Because I think that prescribed drugs by a physician who knows your medical history can be a wonderful thing. I took a prescribed medication by my dentist after a painful tooth was extracted. It really helped me (it also happened in January when the Capitol riot was ensuing). I was crying in the dentist's chair, in part because I felt sorry for myself but also because of what was going on. My great dentist saw what shape I was in and called in my prescription.

[jcgoldie]

17. My grandmother is 96

She still drives her car to bridge and pinochle 4 days a week... shops on her own. She has a "highball" once a day Jim Beam and seven in a great big insulated cup. Her doctor gave her the opposite advice... "do whatever you do its working!"

[NurseJackie]

20. Exactly. If it's working. Don't stop.

Your grandmother sounds delightful!

[jcgoldie]

21. Not so delightful

Threatened to cut me out of the will 30 years ago for taking a black girl to prom and still has her brain poisoned by fox news, but definitely a trooper!

[NurseJackie]

22. Oh! I had one of those too. I know what you mean.

[Hortensis]

27. :) Good for her. I'd do "highballs" with her and avoid social issues. nt

[jcgoldie]

28. That is what i do

🥂

[Tom Rinaldo]

25. I hate the concept of Royalty, but I deeply synpathize with those born into it who den't abuse it

but instead bear up under the social pressure of being a modern Royal with grace. It is not an easy life. Yes there is wealth and "glamour" to ease the burden but no power and very little freedom. I respect Queen Elizabeth. If the ritual of that nightly drink is of comfort to her, may she take whatever pleasure she can.

[TxGuitar]

29. "give up one of very few pleasures"

Cry me a river. Tell that to the poor people of her realm that have funded her lavish lifestyle since the day she was born. She's a grifting pig along with everyone in her family.

[RobinA]

35. Aren't You

a pleasant one. Bye!

[Myrddin]

37. Having been a member of the British working poor (on more than one occasion)

I never resented the relatively tiny amount of my 'tax quids' that went to the queen. However, I did resent those quids making their way to London, used to help London thrive (help it didn't need), and 'bugger-all' quids coming back as reinvestment for the rest of the country.

There's a couple of hundred professional-grifter tory politicians, also funded by the public purse, in front of HMQ, who are far more deserving of my scorn.

[maxsolomon]

36. OK, a small Martini, then.

2 oz instead of 3.