If you fancy adding the royal touch to your evening G&T then listen up, because a new Buckingham Palace gin made with botanicals from the Queen's own gardens has just launched.
Now available to buy on the official Royal Collection website, the new Buckingham Palace gin is described as having "a unique royal origin".
The tipple boasts citrus and herbal notes sourced from 12 botanicals hand-picked in the Buckingham Palace Gardens. These include lemon, verbena, hawthorn berries and mulberry leaves, all grown in the gardens at the Queen's royal residence, which spans 16 hectares and also happens to be home to 30 species of birds and over 250 species of wild flower, according to the product description.
The recommended serve is to pour a measure of the royal gin into a short tumbler filled with ice, before topping it up with classic tonic and finishing things off with a slice of lemon.
Sounds like the perfect summer drink to us!
It also comes presented in a beautifully decorated bottle with a floral motif, meaning it'll make an excellent addition to your drinks cabinet.
A 70cl bottle of the new gin – which is 42% ABV – can be yours for £40 from the Royal Collection website.
The Royal Collection – one of the largest art collections in the world, including almost the entire contents of all the royal palaces – is administered by the Royal Collection Trust, a registered charity, meaning the income from every purchase you make contributes directly to its care. The Royal Collection is no longer owned personally by Her Majesty The Queen but is held in trust by her as Sovereign for both her successors and the nation.
The new Buckingham Palace gin is available to order now for £40 on the Royal Collection website, although bottles won't be dispatched until 31 August.
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Francesca Rice is the Multiplatform Editor of Red, leading on all things digital for the brand. She oversees every section of the site, from Fashion to Wellbeing, and directs Red's digital content strategy across all platforms, including newsletter, social media and video. Francesca has worked as a journalist on the UK's top lifestyle and luxury titles since 2013. She joined Red as Digital Editor in 2021, having previously held senior editorial roles at Hearst UK as Good Housekeeping's Deputy Digital Editor and Prima's Senior Digital Writer. Prior to this, she worked as a News & Features Writer for SheerLuxe, after beginning her journalism career as the Features Assistant at Marie Claire. Francesca has a postgraduate diploma in Multimedia Magazine Journalism from the Press Association and a degree in English Literature from Durham University. Having attended an international school, she is fluent in French and Italian (and occasionally Spanish after a few glasses of rosé). She loves travel, books and pizza so a relaxing holiday in Italy is pretty much her dream scenario.
