Darren McGrady has unveiled the one food never served to babies in the Royal Family - and it may shock many parents. The 62-year-old worked as a personal chef to the late Queen, Princess Diana, and Princes William and Harry across 15 years, becoming very knowledgeable on the dos and don'ts of Royal taste. Speaking previously to , Darren explained: "I've certainly never seen packaged food with any of the Royal babies.
Why would they buy packaged food when the Queen has 20 personal chefs?" Looking back, Darren also recalled preparing William and Harry's first-ever meals of steamed pears and apples. These were gathered from the Queen's Sandringham estate and both pureed and sieved twice to rid of all the lumps. "As they got older, you'd have one chef in the kitchen doing the chicken, one doing the veg, and then it would all be blended together; it was a major operation cooking for them," he said.
Among other favourites were chocolate biscuit cake, served at William and Kate's wedding, in addition to peanut butter and jelly muffins, requested by the young princes after visiting Disney World. However, as Darren pointed out, the boys didn't always have the luxury of choosing their meals. If they did, the menu would certainly feature more pizza, burgers and chicken nuggets, according to In another interview with , Darren said: "They liked comfort food dishes.
They loved banana flan, anything with banana really, banana ice cream. They loved things like mixed grills, burgers, pizza, s.