Darren McGrady Biography

Darren was chef to Queen Elizabeth II Diana Princess of Wales and Princes William and Harry for fifteen years and has cooked for five US Presidents. He is now owner of ‘Eating Royally’ fine dining author culinary consultant event planner and public speaker living in Plano Texas. His cookbook ‘Eating Royally; recipes and remembrances from a palace kitchen’ is in sixth print with all of his advance and royalties donated to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation.
He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show several times on CNN’s Larry King Live the Fox News Channel BBC CBC MSNBC and Sky Television. On Fox and Friends covering the Princess Diana Memorial CNN covering the Royal Wedding and cooked on the Today Show and CBS Early Show in New York.
Darren trained at The Savoy Hotel London before moving to Buckingham Palace where for 11 years he cooked for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and their guests on a daily basis catering banquets for Foreign Heads of State including Presidents’ Bush Clinton Reagan and Ford. His duties included traveling with the royal family to Windsor Castle Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle as well as on the Royal Yacht Britannia on royal tours around the world.

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