Bacon please, chef ... love Diana ; Royal cook sells off notes written by the princess

Evening Standard - London | November 10, 2008| | Copyright

PRINCE CHARLES'S "picky" culinary requests and the late Princess Diana's quirky sense of humour were revealed today by a royal chef.

Charles demanded aides fly pheasants from the Queen's Sandringham estate halfway round the world to serve at banquets and insisted his tea-time eggs were boiled for exactly four minutes.

Mervyn Wycherley, who was personal chef to Charles and Diana for 13 years, spoke publicly for the first time about working for them as he prepared to auction mementoes of his service.

He told how Diana would raid the kitchen fridge at Kensington Palace, once surprising workmen ...

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