Darren McGrady

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 now resides in Dallas, Texas where he is runs a successful catering company called ‘Eating Royally’ fine dining”. He is also an author, culinary consultant, event planner and public speaker. His first cookbook (now in sixth print) ‘Eating Royally; recipes and remem-brances from a palace kitchen’ he donated all of his royalties to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation.

He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, Fox and Friends, CNN Headline News and Larry King Live. He has cooked sev-eral times on The Today Show in New York and on many TV stations across the UK and Canada.

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 Presi-dents’ 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.

In 1993 he transferred to Kensington Palace as Private Chef to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales. For four years (until the tragic accident in August 1997) he took control of Princess Diana, William and Harry’s day-to-day menus.

In 1998 Darren decided to pursue a new challenge in the U.S.A and moved to Dallas, Texas with his wife Wendy. They have three children, Kelly, Lexie and Harry.

Darren became the first private chef invited to cook at the prestigious James Beard House in New York. His food has been featured on American Airlines in premium cabin on flights between Europe and the USA.

Since the Princess’s death, he has devoted much of his free time working for causes she supported, including shelters for battered women, charities for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities and breast cancer charities.

Darren’s second cookbook “The Royal Chef at Home- Easy Seasonal Entertaining” was released November 1st, 2017.

www.theroyalchef.com