Queen Elizabeth II opens Buckingham Palace gardens to public picnics for the first time

Frances O’Neill, 64, who teaches English as a foreign language, enjoyed a “low-key, plebeian picnic,” with sandwiches brought from chain Pret a Manger. That was followed by a stroll through the gardens, which include lakes, wildflower meadows, ancient oaks, beehives and the descendants of mulberries planted by James I in 1608. (He wanted to make silk but got the wrong trees.)

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