With great history comes great quirks.

The Royal Family are famous for their very specific way of doing things, with everyone from King Charles through to the late Queen favouring routine and tradition. And that extends to when they wake up in the morning. The late Queen was know to pour her own cereal from Tupperware, while Charles in renowned for his love of boiled eggs - and several of them.

From ironed shoelaces to the time they're woken up, the royal household runs like clockwork. For the late Queen Elizabeth though, one of her most favoured routines revolved around bath time.

The Queen was said to absolutely hate showers, preferring baths. And according to royal author Brian Hoey, she woke up for a 7.30am bath every day, and it had to be a specific temperature and depth, Women and Home reports.

After waking up and having a cup of tea, the Queen's bath would be drawn and the temperature of the bath water would be measured by a wooden-case thermometer. The water would have been the exact right temperature and would not have been more than seven inches deep.

Brian said: "While Her Majesty is enjoying her first cup of tea, her maid will go into the adjoining bathroom to draw the bath, which has to be exactly the right temperature: tested with a wooden-cased thermometer, and no more than seven inches of water.” After this, the Queen would then have help getting dressed from her royal dresser Angela Kelly, before breakfast at 8.30am sharp.

The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, because King Charles is said to employ rather strange traditions. In a 2018 Amazon Prime documentary, 'Serving the Royals: Inside the Firm', Princess Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell claimed that King Charles gets an assortment of tasks done for him every morning, one of these tasks involved making sure that when it comes to him bathing the bath plug was at a certain position and the water was just tepid.

In the documentary, Paul said: "His pyjamas are pressed every morning, his shoelaces are pressed flat with an iron, the bath plug has to be in a certain position and the water temperature has to be just tepid.”

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