The Queen's former royal chef, Darren McGrady, revealed what Her Majesty loved to eat at Buckingham Palace
Last modified on Sep 13, 2021 14:27 BST Ainhoa Barcelona Former royal chef Darren McGrady cooked for the Queen at Buckingham Palace for 11 years, so he knows a thing or two about Her Majesty's diet, including her likes and dislikes.
Darren told us:"She is absolutely a chocoholic. Anything we put on the menu that had chocolate on, she would choose, especially chocolate perfection pie."Loading the player... var track=function { dataLayer.push; }; var playerInstance=playerInstance || []; playerInstance['J8OHJAae']=jwplayer; playerInstance['J8OHJAae'].
The chef added:"But the Queen never was a foodie. She always ate to live rather than live to eat. Prince Philip was the foodie. He'd want to try any new dishes all the time and got excited about new ingredients, whereas the Queen, if we had a new recipe, she'd have to look at the whole recipe before saying, 'Yes ok let's try it'. But for the most part she stuck to the same dishes week in week out.
"It's like any mum with a son or grandson coming home. If Prince William was coming for tea it would be a chocolate biscuit cake. He loved those," he said.Darren worked at Buckingham Palace for 11 years and Kensington Palace for four
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