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Evening Standard
Josh Barrie

Michel Roux Jr: 'I have nothing to prove, and no more dreams of Michelin stars now'

In a vast private dining room in the heart of the Langham hotel, Michel Roux is remembering his first brush with royalty. It would have been the early Sixties. 

“I’m told I once escaped from the kitchen and crawled down the corridor,” Roux says. “The Queen mum came back to the kitchen with a baby in her arms and said to dad, ‘I think this one might be yours…’” 

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