As the saying reminds us, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

Take a look at the breakfast habits of various well-known figures from fiction and history.

Winston Churchill

He was famously a big man and this may be the reason why.

The great statesman liked to start the day with a two-tray breakfast.

The meal opened with poached eggs, toast with butter and jam and a cold meat platter.

He then moved on to a grapefruit with a bowl of sugar to sweeten it, washed down with a whisky and soda and a cigar.

Elvis Presley

Another big eater, Elvis’s breakfast consisted of six large eggs cooked in butter and with plenty of added salt, a pound of bacon and half a pound of sausages or, alternatively, peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

Charles Dickens

Two tablespoons of rum with a little cream!

King Edward VII

The royal breakfast was an onion stuffed with chicken livers, brandy and cream.

James Bond

Before saving the world, 007 liked to start his day with a ‘Prairie Oyster’, made with Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce and pepper mixed with a raw egg and some aspirin.

In fact Ian Fleming made a point of describing Bond’s breakfasts, about which he was very particular.

The secret agent’s morning meal on quieter days consisted of two large cups of very strong, black coffee, without sugar and always from De Bry in Oxford Street, an egg boiled for three and a third minutes exactly and laid by a French Marans hen, two slices of wholemeal toast with a pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and various jams.