While most people raid their fridge at midnight for a slice of leftover pizza, Princess Diana's cravings were catered to with a bit more...royal flair. In a recent interview with the Sun, former palace chef Mervyn Wycherley revealed that Diana had her own special stash in the kitchen, and what the late Princess of Wales reached for might surprise you.
The chef, along with Diana's former bodyguard, Ken Wharfe, chatted about their memories on the Sun's "Royal Exclusive" show, with Wharfe recalling, "I remember the princess would very often come in and sit in the kitchen with you."
Noting the atmosphere was "quite informal," he continued that Diana would eat while sitting "astride the chest freeze or whatever." Wycherley agreed that Diana "spent a lot of time in the kitchen," and that he would cook up some of her favorite foods for those times when he wasn't around.
“I always had in the kitchen, there was a small fridge, and I used to leave things in the fridge that she liked, cold lamb cutlets and things like that. So she could just snack whenever she wanted to," the palace chef shared.
While "cold lamb cutlets" might not seem like the most appealing of late-night snacks, it seems Prince William developed a penchant for burgers (to his father's dismay).
"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 shared. The former protection officer remembered "coming back from the pizza place and the burger in Kensington High Street" with Prince William, who told Prince Charles, "‘Oh papa we just had these amazing burgers!'"
“And there was this sort of look of disdain with him across the prince's face," Wharfe shared, adding that Charles said, "'I don't know why you eat that food when I have this marvelous army of chefs at Kensington Palace."
Perhaps he wasn't a cold lamb cutlet kind of guy.
