Former royal chef Darren McGrady, who served the Queen for 11 years, revealed a few culinary secrets to Hello! Magazine including Her Majesty’s precious corgis’ day to day posh diet. “When I worked at the palace, we actually had a royal menu for the dogs,” he said.
“It would be chosen and sent to us in the kitchen every month by Mrs Fennick, who took care of all the dogs at Sandringham.
“It would list each day what the dogs were to have.
“One day it would be beef, the next day chicken, the next day lamb, the next day rabbit and it alternated through those days.
“The beef would come in, we would cook it, dice it into really fine pieces and then we did the same with the chicken.
“We’d poach them, and again chop them really, really small to make sure there were no bones so the dogs wouldn’t choke.”
The former royal chef then explained how other members of the royal family helped to feed the dogs in a very unusual way.
“Prince William and Prince Harry used to shoot rabbits on the Windsor Estate, so we’d get the rabbits, they’d have to be cleaned and then cooked,” he said.
“Some days some of the dogs were —shall we say for a better word — a little bunged-up so we’d have to add cabbage on the menu, and then other days we’d actually put rice in there for the other way.”
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The Queen looked after her pets whenever her schedule permitted, mixing their feed with a spoon and fork, from ingredients brought on a tray by a footman.
It is also claimed that if the Queen came into a room wearing a tiara, the Corgis would lie glumly on the carpet.
But if she was wearing a headscarf they were delighted as they knew it was time for a walk.
Singer Max Bygraves once revealed how, when dining with the Queen, a flatulent Corgi left him red-faced. “I hope you don’t think that was me,” he told the Queen.