Is Royal Ascot Britain's most expensive race? Summer event just beats Grand National and Cheltenham for most expensive pint at £7.60 while sparkling wine costs £60 and magnum of champagne is £250 - how much does YOUR favourite drink cost?

Racegoers astatine Royal Ascot look paying up to £250 for a vessel of champagne, astir £8 for a pint of Peroni and £80 for a lobster platter this week, MailOnline tin reveal.

Punters dressed successful stunning hats, summertime dresses and astute suits volition endure eye-watering prices arsenic they cheer connected riders implicit the adjacent 5 days astatine the racecourse.

The astir costly terms crossed each vendors is £250 for a 1.5 litre vessel of Moët & Chandon Rosé Imperial NV Champagne - which costs a specified £90 online.

Other sky-high prices recovered astatine Ascot see a 750ml vessel of Whispering Angel Cotes De Provence Rose for £75 - which retails astatine conscionable £15 via Ocado.

And a 750ml vessel of Chapel Down English sparkling vino is connected merchantability astatine the celebrated tract successful Berkshire this week for £60, contempt besides costing lone £15 astatine Waitrose.

For those conscionable wanting a pint of Peroni Nastro Azzuro, they volition beryllium charged £7.60 astatine Ascot - portion a pint of Cornish Orchards Golden cider is simply a akin terms of £7.50.

The outgo of a Peroni astatine Ascot is somewhat supra the £7.50 astatine some the Grand National astatine Aintree and Cheltenham earlier this twelvemonth for either a Madri oregon Atlantic Pale Ale.

As for the nutrient astatine Ascot, determination is simply a scope - with immoderate of the astir costly dishes including a Lobster platter for £80 and a food and charcuterie committee for £37.50.

A food toastie is £7.50, portion a pepperoni pizza is £13 and crab fries are £15. Takeaway sandwiches and salads mostly outgo betwixt £5 and £6.

As for cocktails, an Espresso Martini is disposable £14.00 and a Baileys blistery cocoa is £8. A non-alcoholic mojito, known arsenic a 'Nojito', is connected merchantability for £9.

MailOnline spoke to racegoers astir the prices today, with 1 highlighting the terms of Pimm's which was £13.50 for a solid and £39.50 for a jug.

They said: 'A solid of Pimm's for £13.50 - that's not a pint, that's a fractional pint, that's a rip off! How overmuch is the Pimm's jug? We were successful Windsor past night, and it was £8 for Pimm's and £40 for a four-pint jug of pints.'

But different attendee said: 'The prices are catered to a definite market, it's arsenic elemental arsenic that. It's a firm event.

'Lots of radical bash bargain for them and their wife, but the radical who bargain for themselves thin to beryllium astatine the centre of the racecourse truly - arsenic opposed to the corporate, hospitality areas due to the fact that that's wherever companies are buying it.'

The attendee besides pointed retired that the terms of a pint of Budweiser, Stella Artois oregon Camden Stout was a overmuch higher £8.95 a pint astatine the Premier League Darts last astatine The O2 successful May.

They added: 'So erstwhile you instrumentality that into consideration, truly a societal time out, arsenic overmuch arsenic thing else, to Ascot successful the tallness of summer, wherever you're seeing fabulous people 1 races, it's fair.'

Royal Ascot was founded by Queen Anne successful 1711 aft she declared the racecourse perfect for 'horses to gallop astatine afloat stretch', and is present a large societal lawsuit arsenic good arsenic a sporting attraction.

King Charles and Queen Camilla are proven fans of racing and arrived astatine Ascot successful the accepted carriage possession this day up of the archetypal race.

Royal Ascot 2023 was their archetypal arsenic King and Queen, and the mates - who took connected Queen Elizabeth II's thoroughbreds - watched arsenic their equine Desert Hero won the King George V Stakes, their archetypal victor astatine the celebrated conscionable arsenic owners.

The precocious Queen Elizabeth II was a passionate proprietor and breeder of thoroughbreds, and had much than 20 Royal Ascot winners during her 70-year reign.

Writing jointly successful the authoritative programme today, Charles and Camilla said: 'It gave america immense pleasance and joyousness to witnesser Desert Hero's triumph successful the King George V Stakes past year, peculiarly arsenic helium was bred by Her precocious Majesty.

'We privation each the participants this week the precise champion of luck successful seeking that unsocial thrill of a Royal Ascot winner. We besides anticipation that those present astatine the racecourse and watching from location volition bask 5 days of the finest racing that this athletics has to offer.'

The carriage procession that heralded the commencement of racing took spot successful superb summertime sunshine.

The King and Queen were joined successful their carriage by Charles Wellesley, the 9th Duke of Wellington who carried Queen Mary's Crown astatine the coronation earlier Camilla was crowned, and his woman the duchess.

They were followed by the Princess Royal who travelled with her lad Peter Phillips, Lady Gabriella Kingston, the girl of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, and Charles and Camilla's racing manager John Warren.

Lady Gabriella was invited to thrust successful the royal carriage procession by the King aft the tragic decease of her hubby Thomas Kingston successful February aged 45.

In the 3rd manager was Camilla's sister Annabel Elliot, her lad Sir Ben Elliot, erstwhile co-chair of the Conservative Party knighted successful Boris Johnson's resignation honours database who is joined to the girl of instrumentalist Steve Winwood, and the Earl and Countess of Halifax.

In the last manager was Sir Johnny Weatherby, the racehorse proprietor and breeder and formerly the precocious Queen's typical astatine Ascot from 2011 to 2020, and racehorse trainer Ralph Beckett and his wife.