{"id":129376,"date":"2026-02-10T22:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129376\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:38:32","slug":"prince-williams-unusual-dinner-he-passed-down-to-3-kids-and-queen-elizabeth-didnt-approve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129376\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince William’s unusual dinner he passed down to 3 kids \u2013 and Queen Elizabeth didn’t approve"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> wasn’t the biggest foodie, unlike her grandsons Prince William<\/a> and Prince Harry<\/a>, and their families. She was known for being a little picky with her eating, and it turns out that there was one food beloved by the royal generations after her that she never even tried.<\/p>\n

According to former royal chef Darren McGrady<\/a>, who worked with different members of the British royal family<\/a> over 15 years, the former monarch never ate pizza, which her son King Charles<\/a>, grandson Prince William, and all three of his children<\/a> love. The Queen typically preferred traditional French-inspired food, or simpler food such as grilled fish and vegetables.<\/p>\n

\"WINDSOR,\u00a9 UK Press via Getty ImagesQueen Elizabeth II was known for being rather selective with her food<\/p>\n

In an interview with Us Weekly<\/a> in July 2020, he revealed: “In the years that I cooked at [Buckingham Palace<\/a>], the Queen never had pizza. I didn’t start cooking pizza until I moved across to Kensington Palace<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

When he moved over to cook for the late Princess Diana<\/a> and her family, during his last four years working with the family, it became a common fixture on the menu. “I [made] pizza all the time for William,” he continued. “In my second cookbook, The Royal Chef at Home, there’s a chicken tikka masala pizza [recipe] because he loves Indian food. The pizza combined the two.”<\/p>\n

Recommended videoYou may also likeWATCH: Queen Elizabeth II’s daily diet<\/p>\n

The rest of the British royal family love pizza<\/p>\n

It seems that a love of pizza must have grown later in the bloodline: King Charles was pictured in 2001 expertly spinning some dough while he paid a visit to The Benvenuti Italian Restaurant in Alnwick, Northumberland, looking like a professional.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in 2018, the Princess of Wales revealed that she and the children love homemade pizza during a visit to St Luke’s Community Centre. She said: “I really enjoy making pizza dough with George and Charlotte because they like getting their hands messy.”<\/p>\n

\"Prince\u00a9 GettyPrince George eats pizza during day four of the second Ashes test match at Lord’s, London<\/p>\n

Prince George was also pictured tucking into a few slices of pizza when he attended the England v Australia cricket match as part of the Ashes with his father in 2023. Clearly, it’s an all-round, all-occasion family favourite!<\/p>\n

What snack did the late Queen Elizabeth II enjoy?<\/p>\n

Though she wasn’t known as a foodie, the late Queen did have her favourites, one of which was chocolate. During an exclusive interview with HELLO!, Darren said that she was “absolutely a chocoholic<\/a>,” adding: “Anything we put on the menu that had chocolate on, she would choose.”<\/p>\n

Danielle Stacey<\/a>, HELLO!’s Online Royal Correspondent, explains that: “The late Queen was reportedly a huge fan of a chocolate biscuit cake, something she shared in common with her grandson, Prince William, who even requested that the sweet treat be served at his wedding to Kate in 2011”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The late Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t the biggest foodie, unlike her grandsons Prince William and Prince Harry, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1070,9,24,63,122,124,123,1431,1245],"class_list":{"0":"post-129376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-food","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-queens-headlines","14":"tag-queens-news","15":"tag-royalty","16":"tag-the-queen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}