Kathmandu, Oaxaca, Jyväskylä. With a career as storied as that of the late Queen Elizabeth, you’d have to get used to spending a lot of time in the air. From Abu Dhabi to Zagreb, Zurich to Aalborg, the monarch flew her across the continents and up and down the alphabet. With a total of 285 overseas state visits, royal tours, and diplomatic missions, it’s perhaps no wonder that the late queen developed some idiosyncratic aeroplane traditions. Now, for the first time, this most royal of routines has been revealed.

Over a three-decade career as a British Airways flight attendant, Elizabeth Evans served the great and the gilded as they soared above the clouds. When Evans’ niece discovered a collection of memorabilia, though, she couldn't have imagined she might stumble across instructio

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