Former Labour health secretary also tells author monarch was ‘good company’ and talked about Diana

The former health secretary Alan Johnson unwittingly ate dog biscuits meant for the Queen’s corgis as he sat next to the monarch during a lunch at Windsor castle in 2008, a new book has revealed.

After the meal, Johnson who was also a former Labour home secretary, remarked that he had “particularly enjoyed the cheese and the unusual dark biscuits” laid on by the Queen, according to her latest biographer, Robert Hardman.

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