Buckingham Palace shares the late Queen Elizabeth’s secret about healthy eating, Prince William’s preference

The late queen had remarkably uncomplicated preferences, especially when it came to food, even when it came to breakfast.

A favorite morning ritual of hers was revealed in the book ‘Dinner at Buckingham Palace’, drawn from the diaries and personal memories of royal servant Charles Olive. One extract reads: ‘Every day starts with an egg, and they are also eaten as tea – with crumpets, if you’re Prince Charles.

“The Queen prefers brown eggs because she believes they taste better. Her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, ate her boiled egg, served in a gold egg cup, with a gold spoon.”

According to House and Garden, the late queen started her day quietly, starting with Earl Gray tea – without milk and sugar – served with biscuits, which she enjoyed alongside her corgis.

She then ate her main breakfast in her private dining room at Buckingham Palace; cereals, yoghurt, toast and marmalade are said to be the monarch’s favourites.

As for the late queen’s other breakfast preferences, she occasionally enjoyed kippers, which she ate with her late sister Princess Margaret as a child.

Dinner at Buckingham Palace further notes: “Kippers, in a number of uncomplicated variations, have remained a favorite with the Queen ever since – for breakfast, as a savory or as an evening meal. The Queen is also fond of smoked haddock for a breakfast dish.”

Former royal chef Darren McGrady has previously spoken about the monarch’s eating habits.

When asked what she normally ate for dinner, he revealed: “For a main course she liked game, things like Gaelic steak, fillet steak with mushroom whiskey sauce, especially if we did it with venison.

“For her first dish she loved the Gleneagles pate which is smoked salmon, trout and mackerel. She liked to use ingredients from the estate and so if we had Balmoral salmon from the River Dee she would have it, it was one of her favorites.”

He added: “We used a repertoire of dishes, mainly British and French dishes. We cooked a lot of traditional French dishes, such as halibut on a bed of spinach with a Mornay sauce.”

According to The Independent, the Queen would have loved strawberries from Balmoral and white peaches from Windsor Castle for dessert. She also had a soft spot for chocolate.

“It’s like any mother with a son or grandson coming home. If Prince William came for tea it would be a chocolate chip cookie cake. He loved it,” he said.