King Charles has an unusual breakfast request that would make even the most lenient of chefs roll their eyes, according to a number of close sources.
The monarch is said to skip lunch, as well as following a vegetarian diet for one or two days of the week. And when it comes to breakfast, he is said to be very specific.
The King asks for a soft boiled, or coddled, egg each morning, and according to a number of people who have worked for His Majesty, he needs his egg to be perfect.
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In his book, On Royalty, Jeremy Paxman said seven eggs are cooked each morning in the hopes one would have the ideal consistency.
Mr Paxman wrote: "Because his staff were never quite sure whether the egg would be precisely to the satisfactory hardness, a series of eggs was cooked, and laid out in an ascending row of numbers. If the [then] prince felt that number five was too runny, he could knock the top off number six or seven.”
When news of the demanding breakfast orders broke, Buckingham Palace staff were quick to dispute the rumour, MyLondon reports. However Kinge Charles’ former private chef, Mervyn Wycherley, backed up the claim and said: “His eggs had to be boiled for exactly four minutes. It was never anything other than a four-minute egg. I always kept three pans boiling, just to be safe.”
The Evening Standard reported that King Charles himself had denied the claims, stating they were “completely untrue” but Wendy Berry who worked for King Charles wrote in her 1995 book The Housekeeper’s Diary that: “After the day’s hunting, Charles would usually be invited back to a fellow huntsman's home for tea. Occasionally, however, he invited people he met out on the field back to Highgrove for boiled eggs and whiskey.
“When this happened, his detective would ring ahead on the mobile phone to give us advance warning of the numbers expected.
"I knew that Charles wanted his eggs cooked for three minutes exactly and that Mervyn usually had several pots on the go to ensure that at least one batch was perfect. The others were simply thrown away.”
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