By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent

The Queen was “furious” after royal protection officers helped themselves to   Bombay mix and nuts left out for her around Buckingham Palace, a court heard   today.

Palace officials sent a memo to royal protection officers warning them to    “keep their sticky fingers out”, after Her Majesty noticed the snacks were   disappearing, jurors at the Old Bailey were told.

The Queen became so incensed that she even began marking the bowls to check if   the levels were dropping, it was suggested.

The extraordinary claims were revealed during evidence at the phone hacking   trial, in which jurors were shown a memo sent by News of the World’s former   royal editor, Clive Goodman to its then editor Andy Coulson. 

Andrew Edis QC, prosecuting, explained that in the email Mr Goodman had   claimed the Queen had been irritated after discovering snacks left in the   corridors around the royal apartments had been going missing.

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