What do the Prince and Princess of Wales' children, George, Charlotte, and Louis, like to eat? Royal fare like caviar? Truffles? Gold foil? Well, while they do like some fancier offerings, many of their favorites may surprise you.
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00:00What do the Prince and Princess of Wales' children, George, Charlotte and Louis, like
00:06to eat?
00:07Royal fare like caviar?
00:09Truffles?
00:10Gold foil?
00:11Well, while they do like some fancier offerings, many of their favourites may surprise you.
00:18In March 2018, Kate Middleton helped make food at St Luke's Community Centre in London
00:23for an upcoming event that the centre was holding.
00:27One of the things she and the other volunteers made was pizza.
00:30According to Hello magazine, Kate revealed that she makes pizza from scratch at home
00:35as well, saying,
00:36"'I really enjoy making pizza dough with George and Charlotte because they like getting
00:41their hands messy.'"
00:43Today reported in January 2019 that Kate volunteered her pizza skills once again, this time at
00:49a community garden where she made pizzas with a group of young children.
00:54She told the kids,
00:55"'My children would love to do this with you.
00:57They'll be very sad that I've been out making pizza with all of you.'"
01:01One of Prince Louis' favorite foods is, perhaps surprisingly for the parents watching, beets,
01:08also called beetroots.
01:10During a BBC cooking special in 2019 with celebrity chef Mary Berry, Kate divulged this
01:17tidbit.
01:18"'Beetroots, a massive favourite.
01:20Louis absolutely loves beetroot."
01:22Berry, who made quite a name for herself on The Great British Baking Show, then went on
01:27to make a chocolate cake using grated beets in Louis' honor.
01:31After taking a bite, Berry called it,
01:33"'Truly indulgent and decadent,' adding,
01:36"'And it's the beetroot that makes it extra rich.'"
01:40According to Today, William and Kate's family maintained their own vegetable garden, growing
01:45their own beets, as well as carrots and beans.
01:48Coincidentally, beets were also a favorite of William's mother, the late Princess Diana.
01:54Former royal chef Darren McGrady told Today,
01:57"'She ate them a lot and even juiced them.'"
02:00In the same cooking special in which Kate shared with her younger son Louis' love of
02:05beets, the princess also said of her daughter,
02:09"'Charlotte obviously likes her Charlotte potatoes.'"
02:13Nutty Produce explains that Charlotte potatoes are a small French varietal with a thin skin
02:19and nutty flavor that are used in a wide selection of dishes, both hot and cold.
02:25According to The Sun, the school that Prince George and Princess Charlotte attended in
02:302020, Thomas's Battersea, was known to include dauphinois potatoes, a creamy dish of sliced
02:37potatoes, on its lunch menu.
02:39This is definitely a departure from dining with the late Queen Elizabeth II, who avoided
02:44starchy foods such as pasta and potatoes, except on special occasions, Bustle notes.
02:50Given the family's habit of occasionally dining out at pubs, according to The Sun, and kids
02:56being kids, we can only assume Charlotte and her brothers also enjoy some French fries,
03:01or, as they would call them, chips, now and again.
03:05Prince William serves as a patron of Centrepoint, a charity supporting homeless youth in the
03:10UK.
03:11This is how he met the charity's ambassador, celebrity chef Aldo Zilli, who grew up in
03:17Italy.
03:18Zilli told the Daily Mail that he is a big fan of the royal family, and was excited to
03:22learn from William that one of Prince George's favorite dishes is the Italian classic spaghetti
03:28carbonara.
03:29Zilli said,
03:30"'I'm waiting for the call to go and cook it for him.'"
03:34Spaghetti carbonara is a simple dish made of spaghetti, or another similar pasta, tossed
03:39with chopped crispy pork, an egg, and parmesan cheese sauce.
03:43Even a child could help prepare this dish.
03:46Perhaps this is what Princess Kate was referring to in a tweet by Rebecca English of the Daily
03:51Mail.
03:52She encourages both Princess Charlotte and Prince George to cook with her.
03:56They made cheesy pasta together the other day.
03:59Olives are one of those polarizing foods that people either love or absolutely can't stand.
04:05It turns out that both Princess Catherine and her daughter, Princess Charlotte, quite
04:09like them.
04:10According to Hello!
04:11Magazine, Kate told a young patient who expressed a love for olives during a visit to Great
04:16Ormond Street Hospital in 2018,
04:18"'I used to eat lots and lots of olives when I was little as well."
04:23Express added that when the patient said he also loved to eat pasta, Kate answered,
04:28"'Charlotte likes pasta and olives too.'"
04:31Daily Mail royal editor Rebecca English wrote in a 2019 tweet that Kate said again that
04:37Charlotte was a major fan of olives.
04:39A study published in the journal Nutrients found that very young children enjoy salt
04:45in higher concentrations than adults do, which may explain Princess Charlotte's preference
04:50for the salty fruit.
04:52Sunday roast is a quintessentially British meal.
04:55It is a custom that dates all the way back to King Henry VII in the 15th century.
05:01As Secret Food Tours explains,
05:03"'This traditional feast consists of a roast meat, such as beef or chicken, roasted potatoes,
05:09vegetables, Yorkshire pudding, and gravy.'"
05:12Prince William may be a modern parent, but he is quite traditional in his choice of favorite
05:16food, the time-honored roast chicken.
05:19In an issue of Ola magazine, former royal chef Darren McGrady shared the exact recipe
05:25of the roast chicken William and his mother, Princess Diana, would often enjoy.
05:30McGrady also said that he taught both William and Harry how to make this dish themselves,
05:35because they loved it so much.
05:37Harry famously made it for Meghan Markle the night he proposed to her.
05:41"'What were we doing?
05:42Just roasting chicken?'
05:43"'Roasting chicken, trying to roast a chicken.'"
05:46Princess Catherine has said that roast chicken continues to be a favorite in her household
05:50too.
05:51According to the Journal of Modern History, Brits have been
05:55"'going out for curry' since the 1960s."
05:58Of course, as members of the royal family, William and Kate can't simply go out for curry
06:03whenever they feel like it.
06:05On BBC Radio 1 in 2017, the couple said that they usually sent someone else to grab a take-out
06:11order rather than go themselves.
06:12"'So what would you have?
06:13Would you have a pizza?
06:14Would you have Chinese?
06:15What would you have?'
06:16"'Curry, definitely.'"
06:17"'Curry.
06:18Love it.'"
06:19Kate has admitted that he's not the best with spicy food.
06:23According to People, Kate often makes her own curry at home for the family, though not
06:27without some difficulty.
06:29She said,
06:30"'It's so hard cooking curry with the family, though.
06:33The children have a portion with no spice, William's is medium, and I quite like it hot.'"
06:39The Duchess of Cambridge also shared that Princess Charlotte is
06:42"'pretty good with heat' as well."
06:44It seems that Charlotte takes after her mother's taste in more than just her enjoyment of olives.
06:50The Sun reported in 2021 that apples were among people in the United Kingdom's top three
06:56favorite fruits.
06:58According to Olive magazine, 40 percent of the apples consumed in the UK were grown domestically,
07:04a figure that is on the rise.
07:06And one place that Prince William and Princess Kate can find native UK apples is at their
07:11children's school.
07:13As reported in the Daily Mail, Lambrook, the private school in which the children were
07:17enrolled after the family relocated to Windsor in September 2022, has its own on-campus apple
07:24orchard.
07:25The school posted to Instagram that its students participated in apple picking and apple pressing.
07:30They also learned how to bake apple cake and other treats.
07:34How lucky for kids who, according to Today, enjoy apples at breakfast.
07:40Kate also makes chutney with fresh apples using her grandmother's recipe.
07:44Town & Country reported that Kate gave Queen Elizabeth a jar of her homemade chutney on
07:49the first Christmas they spent together.
07:52When Curry's PC World surveyed Brits about their breakfast habits, the fourth most popular
07:58breakfast food was cereal.
08:00Prince George, Prince Louis, and Princess Charlotte include themselves among cereal
08:05fans.
08:06When Kate Middleton volunteered to serve breakfast at the London Early Years Foundation's Stockwell
08:11Gardens Nursery and Preschool in early 2020, cereal was one of the items on the menu.
08:17The school's manager, Michelle Samuels, told Today of Kate.
08:21She mentioned to three of the children that her own children enjoy apples and cereal in
08:26the morning, which sparked a conversation with the children about their own preference
08:30of fruits.
08:31According to the Daily Express, the children aren't the only royals who have enjoyed a
08:36bowl of cereal and fruit for breakfast.
08:38Their great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, was also a fan, eating cereal every day after
08:43tea and biscuits.
08:45Former royal chef Darren McGrady told Marie Claire that it was specifically Kellogg's
08:50cereal from a plastic container, which she'd serve herself.
08:55William and Kate may have had a designer eight-tiered cake for their wedding in 2011, but when it
09:01comes to family birthdays, Kate Middleton likes to bake the cakes herself.
09:06Kate told famed baker Mary Berry in 2019,
09:09"...I sort of stay up until midnight with ridiculous amounts of sort of cake mix and
09:14icing.
09:15I make far too much, but I love it."
09:18It appears that love has been passed down to her children.
09:21While visiting a bakery that supplies baked goods to the royal family in the summer of
09:252020, Prince William told The Belfast Telegraph,
09:29"...the children have been attacking the kitchen, and it's just been an explosion of flour and
09:34chocolate everywhere."
09:35In the summer of 2022, the family shared a few pictures on Instagram of Kate and all
09:40three children happily baking and decorating cakes for the Platinum Jubilee Street Party
09:46in Cardiff, Wales.
09:48Roast chicken is not the only way the Wales family keeps to tradition.
09:53Former senior royal chef Darren McGrady told the Daily Express that every Christmas the
09:58royal family goes to church, then returns home for a customary lunch of turkey, stuffing,
10:04and Christmas pudding for dessert.
10:06McGrady told MyLondon that during his time as royal chef, it was the same meal every
10:12year.
10:13He said,
10:14"...we did three turkeys for the Queen and her family in the Royal Dining Room, one for
10:18the Children's Nursery, and then more for the 100 or so staff, so everyone had a Christmas
10:24lunch."
10:25During Christmas 2021, when William, Kate, and the kids did not attend Christmas with
10:30Queen Elizabeth as usual due to the COVID pandemic, the turkey tradition was still maintained,
10:36an insider told Us magazine.
10:38They also said that the three children assisted Kate in baking an apple pie, a chocolate Christmas
10:44log, and a gingerbread house that they also helped decorate.