Buckingham Palace has gone into gin production amid this coronavirus pandemic. The Royal Collection Trust announced the release of its "small-batch dry gin" online for those who love to indulge in a drink or two, just like Queen Elizabeth.

The gin, which cost $50 (£40) a pop, is reportedly made from ingredients harvested from Queen Elizabeth's garden at Buckingham Palace. The cocktail is a mixture of one-part gin and 12 botanicals like bay leaves, hawthorn berries, mulberry leaves and lemon verbena. The drink has been marketed as the "perfect summer thirst-quencher" and will soon be served in official palace events.  

According to the press release, the Queen's garden has over 250 species of wildflowers. The mulberry trees were planted there since the reign of James I, along with 40 different types of trees.   

The Buckingham Palace gin is contained in a pretty turquoise glass bottle with Queen Elizabeth's coronet. It also has flowers entwined in decorative formation with the sketch of the monarch's official residence. 

To enjoy the gin, distillers recommend that it must be served in an ice-filled short tumbler with some tonic and lemon slices. 

According to Fox Newsproceeds of the gin sales will go to The Royal Collection Trust, which funds the conservation of the Royal Collection. It comes amid news that the trust will have to let go of some of its workers since tourism has been down in the last months. 

Buckingham Palace was closed in the middle of March after the UK decided to limit people's movements to slow down the spread of the virus. Queen Elizabeth was transferred to Windsor Castle with Prince Philip to protect them from the virus spread, as part of the vulnerable sector.

Meanwhile, the rest of the royal household went into isolation in different parts of the UK. But as the pandemic struck, a couple of the members of the royal household in Buckingham Palace tested positive for COVID-19.

Fortunately, the Queen had left her official residence by then and has since been virus free in Windsor Castle. The scaled-down staff at Windsor are instructed to follow a strict quarantine procedure before they allowed in the estate. 

Meanwhile, other reports said Queen Elizabeth may not return to Buckingham Palace this year. After her stay in Windsor, she is due to fly to Balmoral in August and remain in her summer home until October. She might be staying in Sandringham afterwards to avoid London, where most of the UK's COVID-19 cases have occurred.