Charles and William’s row over BURGERS, Diana’s secrets & Queen’s treats – royal chef reveals all

NO ONE knows the interior workings of palace beingness rather similar a royal chef. 

Mervyn Wycherley, who worked astatine the palace for 33 years, has lifted the lid connected his clip astatine the palace, including however King Charles and Prince William had a enactment implicit burgers.

Speaking connected The Sun’s Royal Exclusive show, Mervyn besides shared what it was truly similar moving for the precocious Princess Diana, and the dainty helium would marque the Queen.

The burger incident, Ken revealed, was a “treat” for Prince William arsenic helium didn’t ever get to devour that benignant of food.

Former royal extortion serviceman Ken Wharfe recalled: “I retrieve the Prince - present King - was precise peculiar astir the nutrient that helium wanted, and what his household and the unit to eat.

“As William got older, helium was precise keen to spell to burger bars and pizza places, but that didn't truly beryllium that comfortably with his father. 

“And I retrieve coming backmost from the pizza spot and the burger barroom successful Kensington High Street, which was Bill Wyman's place, The Rolling Stones, The Sticky Fingers.

"And William came back, and the prince was there, helium said, ‘Oh, wherever person you been?’

“He said, ‘Oh papa we conscionable had his astonishing burgers’.

“And determination was this benignant of look of disdain with him crossed the prince's face. 

“And helium said, ‘I don't cognize wherefore you devour that nutrient erstwhile I person this marvelous army of chefs astatine Kensington Palace’.

“I deliberation helium astir apt present realises that's however it was successful the precocious 80s and 90s.

“Diana truly wanted to experiment, distant from Mervyn’s nutrient astatine the palace astatine that time.”

Chef Mervyn added: “They truly didn’t often bash that benignant of thing, each their friends utilized to bash it.

“They stuck astatine location and had existent nursery food, treacle tart and things similar that.”

Diana would devour successful the kitchens

Mervyn explained that the likes of the Queen, Charles and Diana would get a paper publication to take their meals from each week.

However, portion this whitethorn look reasonably formal, Princess Diana liked to bask a down-to-earth mealtime.

Former Royal Protection Officer Ken Wharfe, who worked for the royals from 1986 until helium retired successful 2002, shared however she would devour successful the kitchen.

He said: “I retrieve the princess would precise often travel successful and beryllium successful the room with you [Mervyn] and immoderate you'd written down successful the book, helium would sound it up successful the kitchen, and she would devour it, you know, astride the thorax frost oregon whatever. 

“So it was rather informal really.”

He claimed that Diana would archer him that helium wanted the chef, the driver, “to beryllium portion of this wider family.”

Ken added: “Which was rather other what the Prince of Wales wanted that time. But this was Diana style.” 

Mervyn replied: “The Princess spent a batch of clip successful the kitchen, speechmaking The Sun.”

Charles would prime his ain veg

Ken shared however Charles wasn’t acrophobic to get his hands soiled successful the plot and find his ain produce.

The extortion serviceman added: “Where I witnessed, his peculiar involvement successful food, due to the fact that astatine Highgrove determination was a precise sizable rootlike garden, immaculately, brilliantly maintained by a fleet of gardens. 

“He would spell down with a woody handbasket and prime definite vegetables for him and crook backmost to the kitchen.”

Mervyn added: “It ever had the caller veggie, which helium virtually conscionable picked, and helium would person that successful his meal 10 minutes later. 

“It was a spot of a worry. He’d unreserved upstairs to change, travel backmost down, and it's each ready.”

Queen's treats

When helium worked for the Queen, Mervyn utilized to hole a tasty beverage for Her Majesty to tuck into, but this stopped erstwhile helium worked for Charles.

He explained: "Tea was conscionable a cupful of tea.

"It was ne'er a full-blown beverage similar Her Majesty the Queen utilized to person with cakes and scones for the corgis.

Diana got her ain snacks 

Mervyn shared however helium stocked up a fridge of Princess Dians’s favourite snacks successful lawsuit she wanted to devour betwixt meals.

He explained: “I ever had successful the kitchen, determination was a tiny fridge, and I utilized to permission things successful the fridge that she liked, acold lamb cutlets and things similar that.

“So she could conscionable snack whenever she wanted to.”

Staff got royal cook meals too

It wasn’t conscionable the royal family who got to tuck into tasty meals prepared by royal chefs.

Ken shared however helium besides got to devour Mervyn’s food, and said: “We, arsenic policemen and different members of staff, enjoyed [it] precise much.

“How fortunate were we?”

Mervyn added: “Well, 1 of the main things that His Royal Highness ever insisted that the unit beryllium well-fed.

“‘An service marches connected its stomach’. 

“And if you've got a blessed staff, they've been good fed, they volition spell that other mile.”