Her secret?
Starts with she is the queen and everybody else does all the work.
So the UK ruling class gets the treatment, but not the workers?
Exactly right.
Worker bees (the females) live on average 15–38 days in the summer. Their jobs progress throughout their short with the last days spent flying out to gather nectar and pollen. That last job is very strenuous and energy consuming, not to mention potentially dangerous, and they literally work themselves to death.
In the winter, the bees left alive at that time never do the foraging job so they live all winter. They will be needed to keep the hive warm so the queen will not die.
The queen does no strenuous work once she completes her maiden flight upon reaching adult stage. She is tended and fed by the workers.
If you've ever sat outside a hive and watched the workers brining in the pollen and nectar, you'll see a lot of them coming in with worn out edges on their wings and otherwise looking kind of beaten down. Watching workers like that reminds me of what my boss told me when I was working construction in my 20s and throwing around 4x8 sheets of 3/4 inch plywood: "You can do stuff like that until you're about 35, but if you haven't shifted into a supervisor role by then you'll be completely ruined by 50."
I think that was his justification for just sitting around and telling us grunts to do the garbage jobs, but now that I'm in my 50s I feel all the injuries I racked up on job sites and thought I could just walk off or rub some dirt on it.