The royal family are currently in coronavirus lockdown, along with most of the world, and so this year they didn’t get together to celebrate the Easter festival together.
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However, if past years are anything to go by, perhaps some royal family members were happy with this year’s low-key celebrations.
This is probably true for Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice.
Back when the daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson were children, their cousin Prince William played a cruel trick on them.
According to OK! Magazine, former royal chef Darren McGrady revealed that one year, William decided to make a Hickory Dickory Dock nursery rhyme themed chocolate egg.
“It had a clock on the top striking one and a sugared mouse peeking out of a mousehole,” he told the UK publication.
“We sent it up to the nursery on the silver tray, but 15 minutes later the Footman brought it back.
“He said, ‘Nanny asked me to return this. Prince William has just stood on a chair and bitten the mouse’s head off, frightening Beatrice and Eugenie.'”
But all was not lost, and the chef quickly got to work making another mouse.
He said: “We had to quickly make another mouse, pop it in the hole and send it back to the nursery.
“I think Nanny put the egg out of William’s reach to make sure it didn’t happen again.”
On Easter Sunday, the royal family usually attend church together at St George’s Chapel in Windsor.
According to Darren, the Queen then enjoys a traditional roast dinner.
“We’d go straight into the main course – a traditional roast lamb with seasonal vegetables.
“The Queen likes her meat well done so she’d always have the first two slices. They’d also have a compound salad served in a kidney dish attached to the plate – just some lettuce and cucumber with a little mint or some grated carrot and coriander,” he revealed of the royal’s Easter menu.
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