With constant engagements and meeting new people, the Royals live with very strict and sometimes weird food and travel habits to make sure they are keeping up with health and hygiene
After decades of flying around for official duties, King Charles has his travel method down to a fine art ensuring he settles into wherever he is staying.
According to some reports the King’s travel requests have allegedly resulted in him always travelling with his very own ‘breakfast box’ which contains organic produce he has handpicked himself. The King is known to enjoy a range of healthy foods, and his breakfast box is said to include many interesting items – including six different varieties of honey.
Speaking before Queen Elizabeth II’s death, royal chef Graham Newbould revealed: “Prince Charles has a healthier option. He’d have homemade bread, a bowl of fresh fruit, fresh fruit juices. Wherever the Prince goes in the world, the breakfast box goes with him. He has six different types of honey, some special mueslis, his dried fruit and anything that’s a bit special that he is a bit fussy about.”
Another specific breakfast request was revealed by former royal chef Darren McGrady, who worked for the family for more than 15 years. He explained that King Charles likes to ensure the royal pantry is well stocked with “his own produce”. Mr McGrady said: “The instruction was to put two plums and a little juice into the bowl and send it into him for breakfast. I’d send in two plums and he would take one so it would come back out after breakfast and I’d put the other plum back into the jar and save it.
“One morning I thought, ‘okay, he only eats one for breakfast,’ so I only put one plum into the bowl and sent it out into the dining room. The attending [waiter] came through and said, ‘can His Royal Highness have two please?’ So I had to keep sending two in every morning.”
Further stringent travel requests were laid bare in Tina Brown’s explosive tell-all book ‘The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – the Truth and the Turmoil’. She details how Charles allegedly sends a van of his possessions to his friends’ country houses the day before he’s due to stay to unload his “bed, furniture and even pictures”. This includes his orthopaedic bed, lavatory seat and Kleenex Velvet lavatory paper. Brown also claims the King brings his own landscapes of the Scottish Highlands to decorate his room.
Royal food habits aren’t exclusive to just Charles, the late Queen Elizabeth was also known to have very specific tastes and measures around food. It’s well known to many that garlic is a no-no, The Duchess of Cornwall during an appearance on MasterChef Australia, later Queen Camila confirmed that it was due to the etiquette of meeting people during royal engagements. The late Queen is also said to have eaten bananas with cutlery and one many can relate to is sandwiches without the crust.
