{"id":336029,"date":"2025-08-11T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336029\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:18:10","slug":"princess-diana-never-ate-this-unless-prince-william-and-prince-harry-were-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336029\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Diana Never Ate This Unless Prince William and Prince Harry Were Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Princess Diana was a consciously healthy eater, but liked to \u201cspoil\u201d her sons Prince William and Prince Harry when they returned to her home at Kensington Palace from boarding school.<\/li>\n<li>Royal chef Darren McGrady cooked for Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace for 11 years before joining Diana at KP in 1993. He worked for her until her death in 1997.<\/li>\n<li>McGrady shared that there was a surprising food item that the Princess of Wales only ate when her sons were around\u2014beef.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> According to <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/princess-diana-unexpected-mantra-when-marriage-prince-charles-became-difficult-11729099\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Diana<\/a>\u2019s former chef, the Princess of Wales only brought one food on the menu if her sons, <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/prince-william-small-monarchy-fewer-working-royals-8666855\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince William<\/a> and <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/prince-harry-declined-buckingham-palace-stay-8776057\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a>, were there with her at her home at Kensington Palace.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Darren McGrady worked for the royal family beginning in the 1980s, and worked exclusively for Diana from 1993 until her death in 1997. Diana was strict with her diet, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellomagazine.com\/royalty\/849279\/the-one-food-princess-diana-didnt-eat\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hello!<\/a>, saying that the royal \u201cwas into healthy eating, so we never had beef on the menu unless the boys were home.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p> Princess Diana, Prince Harry, and Prince William.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cShe never ate pork,\u201d he added. \u201cOccasionally, she\u2019d have lamb when she was entertaining guests, but for the most part it was chicken, fish, or vegetarian options.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> By the time McGrady went to work for Diana at KP, she was already separated from <a class=\"recommendation-inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/king-charles-exasperated-prince-harry-william-family-drama-8680090\" link-destination-recommendation=\"true\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Charles<\/a>; they\u2019d ultimately finalize their divorce in 1996. Before cooking for Diana beginning in 1993, he\u2019d cooked for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/queen-elizabeth-iconic-outfits-going-on-display-11775822\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queen Elizabeth<\/a> at Buckingham Palace for 11 years, and \u201cWhen I was cooking for her [Diana], I had to change my style of cooking,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p> Princess Diana on June 3, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cI had to move from cooking food for the Queen\u2014heavy sauces, rich sauces and creams\u2014to start cooking lighter food again, cutting out the fats, cutting out the carbs,\u201d McGrady recalled. \u201cShe would say, \u2018You take care of all the fats, and I\u2019ll take care of all the carbs at the gym.\u2019 So dishes like tomato mousse, which she really liked, she\u2019d say, \u2018Make me a fat-free version.\u2019\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Though she was particular about what she ate, Diana would \u201cspoil\u201d William and Harry when they returned home to KP from boarding school: \u201cThey could have chocolate\u2014there weren\u2019t special treats because if the boys were home, the princess wanted to spoil them,\u201d McGrady said.\n<\/p>\n<p> Princess Diana with her sons Prince Harry and Prince William at an amusement park in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p> Princess Diana, Prince Harry, and Prince William in September 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cThey liked comfort food dishes,\u201d he added. \u201cThey loved banana flan, anything with banana really, banana ice cream. They loved things like mixed grills, burgers, pizza, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken and cream chicken sauce.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> He continued of William and Harry, \u201cThey were royal children, but they still had children\u2019s palates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princess Diana was a consciously healthy eater, but liked to \u201cspoil\u201d her sons Prince William and Prince Harry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7714,7713,533,2832,532,2831,7710,519,7711,7712],"class_list":{"0":"post-336029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-catherine","10":"tag-catherine-middleton","11":"tag-kate-middleton","12":"tag-prince-of-wales","13":"tag-prince-william","14":"tag-princess-of-wales","15":"tag-royal-families","16":"tag-royal-family","17":"tag-uk-royal-family","18":"tag-william"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115010804444170894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}