Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett reveals ‘relaxed and easygoing’ Queen Camilla likes ‘simple and easy’ meals
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Michelin starred chef Angela Hartnett OBE has revealed what it is like to cook for Queen Camilla.
She also opened up about how easy going the royal is when it comes to what she eats, while speaking during an interview with the Mirror.
The chef cooked dinner at an event to launch the first ever Braemar Literary Festival in Fife last October.
According to the 55-year-old, who is one of Britain’s only female Michelin star chefs, Camilla is ‘really relaxed and easygoing’, and she said it was great to cook for the Queen.
She also describe the royal, 76, as being a ‘a lovely lady’ who is ‘a great wife to the King’.
Angela Hartnett OBE cooked at a dinner launching the first-ever Braemar Literary Festival in Fife last October (pictured at the event L-R: Queen Camilla, Angela Hartnett)
When it comes to what meal is ‘fit for a Queen’, Angela replied: ‘Anything and everything.’
She revealed that Camilla was ‘was like every other guest [she’s] ever cooked for’, saying ‘whatever is made for her, she’ll eat’.
Angela added: ‘I think when you get to a certain age, without being rude, of course, and you’re as busy as she is with so many engagements, you’ll eat whatever is simple and easy.’
When it comes to what the pair spoke about when they met, Angela says they conversed about Jack Russell dogs, as they both have one.
She added: ‘When mine, Betty, went missing last year, Camilla was asking everyone whether she had been found – and she’s met Betty now.’
The admiration Angela has for Camilla appears to be mutual.
In a 2022 interview by her son, Tom Parker-Bowles, for You magazine, she said her last supper would probably involve her own asparagus, with lots of butter.
It would also feature Angela Hartnett’s risotto. ‘I love her cooking,’ said Camilla.
Queen Camilla (pictured in France last week) has some simple tastes when it comes to food – but is a big fan of Angela Hartnett’s risotto and good claret
She added the rest of her last supper would include: ‘Dover sole meuniére, with ratte potatoes and fresh broad beans and peas from the garden.’
For pudding, she would opt for bitter chocolate ice cream, plus strawberries and raspberries and lots of clotted cream.
And she would wash it down with a glass (probably two, she joked, as it was her last meal) of ‘really good’ red claret.
When it comes to her favourite foods, the Queen has some perhaps surprisingly simple tastes.
She has previously been reported as saying that baked beans on toast is one of her favourites, as well as fish and chips, saying ‘you cannot beat proper fish and chips’.
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