The papers of Audrey Taylor, a former Deputy Head Royal Coffee Maid, are being sold at auction. Ms. Taylor died last month.

The papers reveal the breakfast and tea preferences of various members of the royal family. Among other mundane revelations, Prince Phillip and the famously tightwad Queen Elizabeth enjoy toast with their afternoon tea, a preference that strikes me as either pleasantly charming or shockingly frugal — or perhaps both, I can’t decide.