I can’t say that King Charles’s taste in food overlaps much with my own. We’re talking, after all, about a 76-year-old monarch whose favourite meal is apparently pheasant crumble pie (a dish that sounds like it could have been plucked from a royal menu designed by his Tudor forebear, Henry VIII). This is a man who frequently snacks on fruit and vegetables foraged from the sprawling garden of his private residence. I very much doubt he even knows about the concept of Deliveroo. But there is one vaguely controversial gastronomic opinion that the King and I apparently hold in common – and that’s a seeming lack of enthusiasm for the Great British chocolate makers Cadbury.
Allow me to explain. The King, of course, hasn’t embarked on a rant about how much he prefers to settle down with a tin of Celebrations at Christmas rather than scoff a box of Miniature Heroes (although, in my humble opinion, he’d be correct to make that assertion). That’s simply not how the royals operate; they’re famous for showing rather than telling. What he has done, or at least, what the royal household has done, is to revoke Cadbury’s royal warrant, an honour that recognises companies that supply goods or services to the palace and to senior royals.
