Prince William, Prince Harry, Prince George and other royal babies banned from eating surprising food

Darren McGrady cooked for the royal household from 1982 done to 1997 - and helium has revealed the nutrient fixed to royal babies and young children, including Prince William and Prince Harry

A erstwhile royal cook has lifted the lid connected the 1 nutrient ne'er fixed to royal babies - and it volition travel arsenic a astonishment to galore parents.

Darren McGrady worked astatine Buckingham Palace from 1982 to 1993, and astatine Kensington Palace from 1993 until Princess Diana's decease successful 1997. Over the people of his career, helium cooked for the precocious Queen, Princess Diana and Princes William and Harry. Speaking antecedently to TODAY.com, Darren admitted: "I've surely ne'er seen packaged nutrient with immoderate of the royal babies. Why would they bargain packaged nutrient erstwhile the queen has 20 idiosyncratic chefs?"

Instead, helium recalled pureeing William and Harry's precise archetypal meals of steamed apples and pears gathered from the Queen's Sandringham state retreat, noting that the purees had to beryllium sieved doubly to beryllium perfectly definite nary lumps remained. "As they got older, you'd person 1 cook successful the room doing the chicken, 1 doing the veg, and past it would each beryllium blended together; it was a large cognition cooking for them," helium said.

One of Prince William's precise favourite desserts was banana flan, evolved from the royals' puerility meals of pureed banana and custard. Other saccharine treats included cocoa biscuit cake, which William and Kate famously served astatine their wedding, and peanut food and jelly muffins, which the boys requested aft trying them astatine Disney World.

And portion William and Harry's nanny was connected manus to marque definite the boys ate their veggies, their palates were conscionable similar immoderate different child, Darren revealed. "If it was near to the boys, it would beryllium cheeseburgers, pizza, chickenhearted nuggets, and loaded overgarment potatoes," helium said. Despite the expansive setting, their parent Princess Diana preferred to instrumentality a much informal attack to mealtimes, letting her children devour meals connected trays successful beforehand of the TV, and erstwhile cancelling their planned meal to instrumentality them retired to McDonalds – due to the fact that they wanted the Happy Meal toys.

In different interrogation with HELLO, Darren said of the precocious Princess: "She wasn't strict astatine all. She fto them beryllium boys, young boys! There was ever a conflict betwixt her and Nanny. Nanny would say, 'No, they're eating their dinner, they're having cabbage.' "And the Princess would say, 'No, if they're with maine and they privation loaded murphy skins and fried chicken past they tin person that. And if they don't devour it and they inactive privation pudding, they tin person that too!' She was overmuch much relaxed than Nanny."

He continued: "They liked comfortableness nutrient dishes. They loved banana flan, thing with banana really, banana crystal cream. They loved things similar mixed grills, burgers, pizza, spaghetti and meatballs, chickenhearted and pick chickenhearted sauce... They were royal children but they inactive had children's palates."