Princess Eugenie admits breaking food rule that Queen demanded in Royal Family

27 November 2023 , 23:00

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The 33-year-old said the royals fear a certain pungent food (Image: PA)

Princess Eugenie recently let listeners in on the peculiar eating restrictions of the Royal Family.

The 33-year-old made a rare appearance earlier this week on the Table Manners podcast with Jessie and Lennie Ware. In it, she spoke candidly about life as a royal - from ordering Deliveroo to Kensington Palace and the prospects of sending her sons August and Ernest to boarding school.

Perhaps the most revealing moment was when she confirmed an unusual food rule for royals: they are forbidden from eating certain types of foods. Eugenie said: "We do one [Waitrose] order every week and everyone piles on everything they can on Sunday night and it comes on Monday morning. Sundays are quite sad looking at my fridge."

Princess Beatrice of York and Princess Eugenie of York attend the officially party celebrating Vogue World in September (Dave Benett/Getty Images)

When asked what was in her food order, she admitted: "Nothing interesting really. Chicken, sausages, always. Potatoes, onion, garlic," revealing how her food order breaks the royal rule. Eugenie went on to share how she's "not allowed" to have onion and garlic at her parents' Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew's home.

She added that they fear "the breath" and, as with many royals, avoid the pungent foods. Previously, Queen Camilla once said on Australian MasterChef that garlic is off the menu when carrying out official engagements: "Garlic is a no-no... You always have to lay off the garlic," she said.

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Eugenie with her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II (Princess Eugenie/Instagram)

Former royal chef Darren McGrady confirmed this and revealed that palace chefs were forbidden by the late Queen from serving food with too much onion or garlic in it. However, with Eugenie not being a working royal, she does not have to partake in as many public engagements each year so a love of garlic is not a major hurdle for her.

The mum-of-two also revealed how she sharpened her cooking skills with one of Great British Bake Off star Prue Leith's courses at Leiths School of Food and Wine. Eugenie said: "I did a cooking course at Leiths," and "learned how to julienne and make everything and sweat onions."

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