Princess Eugenie has admitted to breaking a food rule the late Queen Elizabeth II liked the Royal Family to adhere to.
Speaking during a rare appearance on the Table Manners podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware, the 33-year-old made a candid admission. During the recording she spoke about life as a royal, from ordering takeaway to Kensington Palace and the prospects of sending her sons August and Ernest to boarding school, reports the Mirror.
Her most revealing insight came when she confirmed an unusual food rule for the royals. They were forbidden from eating certain types of food.
Eugenie said: “We do one [Waitrose] order every week and everyone piles on everything they can on Sunday night and it comes on Monday morning. Sundays are quite sad looking at my fridge.”
When quizzed about the contents her basket, Eugenie said: “Nothing interesting really. Chicken, sausages, always. Potatoes, onion, garlic.”
She did however reveal her shop breaks a royal rule, admitting she’s “not allowed” to have onion and garlic at her parents’ Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew’s home. She added that they fear “the breath” and, as with many royals, avoid the pungent foods.
Previously, Queen Camilla once said on Australian MasterChef that garlic is off the menu when carrying out official engagements: “Garlic is a no-no… You always have to lay off the garlic,” she said. Former royal chef Darren McGrady confirmed this and revealed that palace chefs were forbidden by the late Queen from serving food with a lot of onion or garlic.
Eugenie however is not a full working royal as she does not take part in as many engagements as others each year. This could mean the garlic and onion rule is less of a hurdle.
The mum-of-two also revealed how she sharpened her cooking skills with one of Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith’s courses at Leiths School of Food and Wine. Eugenie said: “I did a cooking course at Leiths,” and “learned how to julienne and make everything and sweat onions.”
