"Her Royal Highness?... Magic mushrooms at Buckingham Palace"

Via the Thompson Reuters Foundation:

A species of hallucinogenic mushroom has been found growing wild in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the main residence of Britain's Queen Elizabeth.

Film-makers stumbled across the red and white speckled fly agaric fungus as they shot footage in the 40-acre private estate for a documentary entitled "The Queen's Garden" to be screened by broadcaster ITV on Christmas Day.

"That was a surprise but it shows just how varied the species are," presenter Alan Titchmarsh told Friday's edition of popular tabloid newspaper The Sun.

ITV said on its website: "Fly agaric are a common species and are understood to have grown naturally in the palace grounds rather than having been planted there."...MORE

Charles just smiled.