But the Queen's taste in music obviously goes beyond a quick top 10, and there are some other big names that Her Majesty was said to be a fan of. One perhaps surprising pick is Swedish pop icons ABBA. The royal family of Sweden's love of 'Dancing Queen' is well known and pretty understandable.
Speaking on BBC Radio documentary Our Queen: 90 Musical Years, she explained: “The Queen loves the theatre and musicals like Showboat, Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun. “These were the tunes that remained in one's head and were very danceable to.”
Many changes took place during the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II — but perhaps no changes were more pronounced than those that the music world went through. The BBC has been documenting the queen's love of music through an audio series called Her Majesty's Music.
She texts her grand-kids
What with her own various social media feeds and her very own website, this is one modern woman. According to Sally Bedel Smith, the Queen has her own mobile phone which she uses to text her grandchildren.
While it is believed Queen Elizabeth II's real preference was to have these classic pop and rock numbers on her playlist – the contribution she made to classical music throughout her long reign can't be underestimated.
Cliff Richard, ABBA and Dame Vera Lynn... we revisit Queen Elizabeth II's favourite artists.
It's all in the bag
Her bag, according to Vickers, was used by the Queen to indicate her wishes when navigating official functions. If the Queen shifted her bag from one hand to the next, it signaled that she was ready to end her current conversation.
Special people the Queen would answer the phone for
"The two people she phones the most are said to be her daughter Princess Anne and her racing manager John Warren." Warren can get through to the Queen "from anywhere in the world".
They've chatted with Queen Elizabeth II
While the Reddit guard admits that the novelty of meeting important people does tend to wear off, he still remembers his first meeting with Her Majesty. “When I was on guard at Windsor Castle, she came up to me with her husband and the dogs and asked me some questions.
Queen Elizabeth cried during a few public appearances in the past, including Remembrance Day Ceremony, Aberfan disaster, and other painful events.
"The Queen loves the theatre and musicals like Showboat, Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun," she said. "These were the tunes that remained in one's head and were very danceable to." Other sources close to the Queen told the documentary that the Monarch's taste was "mainstream", with "no airs and graces".
Appearing on Yahoo Movies, Blessed said that Her Majesty told him her favourite movie was pulpy sci-fi classic Flash Gordon.
Revealed: Why blue is the Queen's favourite colour... and why she doesn't like beige. Many have wondered what Her Majesty's favourite colour is - until now. Vogue magazine has studied every outfit she has worn in the last 12 months and found that blue is known as royal for a reason.
She wakes up to a cup of tea and the news.
It's served on a silver tray with a freshly pressed linen napkin, embossed with the royal cypher E II R, draped across the top. While the Queen sips her tea, her bedroom radio is tuned to BBC Radio 4 to listen to all the political news of the day.
What Kate called the Queen. While the rest of the world was required to address Queen Elizabeth as Ma'am or your majesty, those closest to her are allowed to refer to her as Mama, according to Ingrid Seward, the editor of Majesty magazine.
The Queen had a phone with a 'highly encrypted anti-hacking mechanism'. The special mechanism in the phone, a Samsung model, was set up by the MI6 to prevent hackers from accessing any details of her personal conversations.
Whether you think it's good or bad to be glued to a handheld device for hours on end, we're all guilty of it at some stage – including the royals! From the Duke of Sussex to the Countess of Wessex, let's take a look at some of the royals who are just as addicted to their phones as us.
How does the Queen know when and where to send telegrams to centenarians? DUE TO a hectic 'working' and social diary, the monarch does not have time to send congratulatory telegrams. The task is undertaken on her behalf by the pensions section of the Benefits Agency (formerly the DHSS).
The Queen always carried a handbag on her arm to match her extravagant attire, but it was also used to give secret signals. The Queen of England was the only person in the United Kingdom who could legally drive without a license as she didn't need a license number or a number plate.
If the queen moved her classic handbag from its normal spot on her left arm to her right arm while she was talking with someone, her handlers knew that she wanted to wrap it up. Putting her bag on the floor was a sign that she needed to be saved from an uncomfortable encounter ASAP.
He wrote: "Your Majesty, "I am returning my MBE as a protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts.
Over the course of his career, McCartney, who wrote the Beatles' “Her Majesty” for the monarch, estimates he met Queen Elizabeth II “eight or nine times,” and “each time she impressed me with her great sense of humor combined with great dignity.”