King Charles launches new business at Sandringham

Gin is the key ingredient to the King's supposed favourite cocktail, a Dry Martini.

However, the bar offers only £6.50 gin and tonics made using produce grown on his ­Norfolk estate, reports The Sun.

Punters can opt for raspberry and apple flavour or the "Celebration Gin” with both drinks served in a glass branded with the estate’s name. The first, said to be “full-bodied” in a notice on the bar, is made by steeping the fruit in distilled spirit.

It adds: "This gin boasts the perfect balance of Norfolk apples and juicy raspberries."

The second, based on Sharon fruit, is made using ingredients from Sandringham’s walled garden, including myrtle grown from a cutting from the wedding bouquet at King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra’s marriage in 1863.

Other products in the estate shop include £6.99 Raspberry and Gin Preserve and £14.99 gin­ flavoured chocolates.

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King Charles’ friend Count Tibor Kalnoky said on the Channel 4 documentary The Real Windsors: The Outspoken Heir, King CharlesIII: "He likes a martini before dinner, that’s for sure."

Royal commentator Gordon Rayner told The Telegraph: "When he travels abroad he takes his own spirits with him to be mixed by his staff to his precise taste.

"While the Queen takes her own supply of red wine, usually from the Pomerol appellation of Bordeaux."

While King Charles may sip a glass of wine during dinner, his martini "is effectively his only drink of the day."

It comes after the estate served up a new range of burgers at the 20,000-acre estate’s posh restaurant, while another pop-up stall sold homemade ice-cream.