A former palace chef and royal protection officer revealed how Prince William's love for burgers and pizza clashed with King Charles's more traditional culinary preferences.
Prince William and Prince Harry's preference for fast food clashed with King Charles's more traditional culinary tastes, according to former palace chef Mervyn Wycherley and royal protection officer Ken Wharfe. The brothers, who grew up in Kensington Palace, enjoyed trips to theme parks and even McDonald's, indulging in burgers and pizza, which Wharfe said, didn't sit well with Charles.
'As William got older, of course, he was very keen to go to burger bars and pizza places, but that didn't really sit that comfortably with his father,' Wharfe recalled. Wharfe and William once returned from a pizza and burger establishment on Kensington High Street and faced disapproval from Charles. 'Oh papa we just had these amazing burgers,' Wharfe recalled William saying. 'There was this sort of look of disdain with him across the prince's face,' he continued, adding that Charles said, 'I don't know why you eat that food when I have this marvelous army of chefs at Kensington Palace.' Wycherley, who served as chef for 33 years, explained that Harry and William 'really didn’t often go out to fast food restaurants, because all of their friends used to do it.' Instead, they 'stuck at home and had real nursery food. It was the old treacle tarts and things like that.”Diana, Princess of Wales, embraced a more casual approach to food, Wharfe and Wycherley said she often hung out and ate in the kitchen. 'It was part of Diana's character, because she had this sort of very friendly approach to all members of the staff actually, and the kitchen—like in everyone's house really—is a focal meeting point for life,' Wharfe shared. Diana also prioritized giving her sons a taste of normal life beyond the palace walls. 'I remember William's mother, Diana, telling me that she wanted her two boys to be brought up in a way no other royal princes had been,' Wharfe wrote. 'She did her best to give them an idea of what life beyond the palace walls is like.'
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