Queen Elizabeth II and grandson, Prince William, had a ball during their conventional tea time.
Her Majesty, who often invited her eldest grandson to Buckingham Palace for snacks, ensured she has chocolate biscuit cake for the Prince of Wales.
Former Buckingham Palace chef Darren McGrady tells Coffee Friend: “During the week, Prince William and Prince Harry would be at Ludgrove at school so they wouldn’t be there for tea, it would only be at Easter or Christmas or the summer at Balmoral that they’d get to spend time with the rest of the Royal family at afternoon tea.”
“A lot of the time we would actually send nursery tea separately, so the boys wouldn’t have tea with the Royal Family,” he shared.
“We’d do caramel banana cake, lots of sugar, it used to drive nanny crazy, and jam tarts—traditional, authentic, British nursery food.”
“If she had said Prince William was coming for afternoon tea, she knew her grandson loved chocolate biscuit cake, so she’d write that in instead and put a number two,” he added. “That told us there were two for tea.”