Are there any brands of cigarettes that still carry a Royal Warrant today? And does the Queen still smoke?
In the past, there have been cigarette manufacturers that have carried Royal Warrants and proudly displayed them on their products. Are there still any cigarettes that carry Royal Warrants today?
And does the Queen or anyone else in the Royal Family smoke?
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The others who have told you that the Queen has never smoked are, I think, incorrect. I have read several things which indicate that the Queen, as a young woman, DID smoke. She never smoked as heavily as her father or her sister...and I have never seen anything that indicated that the Queen Mother smoked.
Once the Queen's father ....George VI....became ill from smoking....the Queen stopped smoking.
You have to remember that the Queen was a young woman during the 1940's and 1950's....and people back then didn't KNOW how damaging to the body that smoking was. The vast majority of all the populations of all the world SMOKED back then!
Queen Mary, the Queen's grandmother, smoked.....as did most of the members of the UK royal family. The last Tsar of Russia smoked, most of the royal Princes in the UK royal family smoked. Smoking was considered with the same attitude as drinking coffee or tea.....!
Since the members of the Uk royal family try to set a good example for the populace, I would think that, like other public figures who smoke...but only in private, that if members of the UK royals still do smoke....they don't do it in public.
Questions about the royal warrants have been answered in this section. I don't remember seeing a brand of cigarettes on the list the last time this question was answered.
Remember that the Queen is the Head of State and entertains at Buckingham Palace important people from all over the planet. It is the custom of hosts to provide those things which their guests request. I find it unlikely that the Queen never purchases tobacco products....as so many of the people she entertains in her capacity as Head of State....do smoke.
The official "stance" of the Palace may very well be that no tobacco products are ever purchased by the Queen. I think that's unlikely. She may not allow tobacco products in her private residences....but I can't see her having a group of Commonwealth leaders from all over the planet staying at Buckingham Palace, and meeting there for extended periods of time...and telling the leader of another country that she doesn't have any after-dinner cigars or cigarettes in a smoking room.
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