{"id":15203,"date":"2022-06-20T09:41:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/?p=15203"},"modified":"2022-06-20T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:41:13","slug":"a-royal-slumber-queen-elizabeths-bedtime-routine-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/a-royal-slumber-queen-elizabeths-bedtime-routine-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Royal Slumber\u2014Queen Elizabeth\u2019s Bedtime Routine Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even after seven decades on the throne, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II still fascinates the public with her youthful vigour. In fact, many are intrigued by what the <\/span><b>96-year-old monarch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does to stay in shape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, Julia Banim, a Mirror journalist, claims they discovered the Queen\u2019s secret\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/i-tried-queens-royal-bedtime-26914970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her evening routine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; though it doesn\u2019t quite compare to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/bizarre-sleeping-habits-of-famous-people-infographic\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bizarre seeping habits of other famous people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Namely, the Queen likes to <\/span><b>take brisk walks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> around the palace grounds before bedtime to unwind and relax. Then, she answers state-affair correspondence until 9 PM, sharp. After that, Her Majesty retires to <\/span><b>watch some television<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014some of her favorite shows include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dad&#8217;s Army, Doctor Who, Last of the Summer Wine, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Downton Abbey<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Margaret Rhodes, the Queen&#8217;s late cousin, declared that Her Majesty <\/span><b>likes a glass of champagne<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> each night before bed, which she goes to at around 11 PM. Once there, she dozzes off with a good book in her hands and gets <\/span><b>a solid eight and a half hours of sleep<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> until her alarm buzzes at 7:30 AM; truly a royal rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, both reading <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">walking before bedtime have been proven beneficial for a good night\u2019s rest. So there\u2019s definitely something to Her Majesty\u2019s bedtime routine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s more, a study conducted by the University of Michigan found that having <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/having-a-pre-sleep-routine-helps-with-insomnia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a pre-sleep routine helps with insomnia<\/span><\/a> <b>the same way medication does<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, imitating Queen Elizabeth\u2019s evening ritual\u2014on a more modest scale, of course\u2014might actually get us better sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even after seven decades on the throne, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II still fascinates the public with her youthful vigour. In fact, many are intrigued by what the 96-year-old monarch does to stay in shape. Well, Julia Banim, a Mirror journalist, claims they discovered the Queen\u2019s secret\u2014her evening routine; though it doesn\u2019t quite compare to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15205,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203\/revisions\/15205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}