Prince
William and Prince Harry once tried to get their personal chef to cook
them pizza by forging a note to him, it emerged yesterday.
Former
Royal chef Darren McGrady said that as children the brothers swapped
the instructions from their nanny for their own in which they asked for
fast food.
William and Harry were apparently fed up with the endless diet of traditional English food so wanted a change.
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Former
Royal chef Darren McGrady (right) said that when the Royal princes were
children (left) they swapped the instructions from their nanny for their
own in which they asked for fast food
William and Harry (pictured as
children at Balmoral Castle with the rest of the Royals) were apparently
fed up with the endless diet of traditional English food so wanted a
change
William and Harry, pictured with their mother, dressed for the start of a new term at school in April 1990
Mr McGrady said that their 'juvenile handwriting gave their identity away' - and that they ended up with roast chicken anyway.
He said that he was 'more scared of the nanny than I was of William' so obeyed her rather than the third in line to the throne.
In an interview with People magazine, he said: 'They may be royal children, but they still have children's palettes'.
Mr
McGrady is the former chef to The Queen and Princess Diana and spent a
total of 15 years cooking for them at Buckingham Palace and Kensington
Palace.
During that time he got to know the family and their culinary tastes very well.
'I
remember holding the boys as babies, when the Princess was eating
cereal in the kitchen, thinking, 'Wow, here I am, literally holding the
crown jewels,' McGrady he told People.
Mr McGrady said
the young princes' (pictured with Princess Diana and Prince Charles)
'juvenile handwriting gave their identity away' - and that they ended up
with roast chicken anyway
When the
Princes (left with Prince Charles on a sking holiday) were growing up
the chef of the day at the Palace would send a list of suggestions to
the nursery for what they should eat and the nanny (pictured right, with
a young William) made her choice and then a butler would bring the
meals down to the children
He
said that when the Princes were growing up the chef of the day at the
Palace would send a list of suggestions to the nursery for what they
should eat.
The nanny made her choice and then a butler would bring the meals down to the children.
William and Harry would eat the same food as adults only it would often be diced or pureed.
Mr
McGrady said that they were served 'traditional, English food' and
William was supposedly fond of cottage pie and peas, poached chicken and
rice and fish cakes.
He said: 'Everything a normal British child would have. The only difference is that they had a chef cooking it for them.'
When it came to dessert they went for 'quintessentially British comfort food' and their favourite was jam roly-poly.
He said: 'Each time, I'd send up six pieces, and each of them would go.'
Other
desserts which were popular with the Princes included summer pudding
and sticky toffee pudding which also happens to be a favourite of
Princess Kate.
Rank
played its part even in what the children ate and whenever the Princes
were joined by their cousins such as Zara and Peter Phillips or Prince
Andrew's daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, their nanny decided what
everyone ate as they were more senior.
Mr
McGrady said: 'So when William came in, his nanny was the senior nanny,
because she had the senior royal, so the boys always had their choice
of foods on the menu'.
The former Royal chef (pictured) said
rank part even in what the children ate and whenever the Princes were
joined by their cousins such as Zara and Peter Phillips or Prince
Andrew's daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, their nanny decided what
everyone ate as they were more senior
William
was supposedly fond of cottage pie and peas, poached chicken and rice
and fish cakes as children while both princes were fond of
'quintessentially British comfort food' and their favourite was jam
roly-poly
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