A former royal butler has revealed what the Royal Family get up to at Easter, including the luxury giant chocolate eggs they like to purchase to treat themselves.
The Firm are usually snapped on Easter Sunday heading to St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle for the Mattins service, but it seems they enjoy munching on some chocolate away from the camera just like the rest of us do.
Speaking on behalf of Slingo, former butler Paul Burrell exposed their chocolatier of choice as Charbonnel et Walker, where Easter eggs can cost up to £38.
However this often comes as a well-earned treat at the end of Lent, as he explained: “The Royals celebrate Lent.
“They would give up chocolate or cheese and make an effort to go without something to acknowledge the fact that it was Lent. Easter would always be a lavish tea and the things they have given up would appear again in celebration.”
Prince William and Princess Kate will not be attending with their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, the week after it was confirmed the Princess too has cancer.
She shared in a video message posted online that following her abdominal surgery in January, further tests had detected the disease and she had been recommended for preventative chemotherapy.
William will also be absent from royal duties during the children’s Easter holidays, with them set to return to school at Lambrook on April 17.
