The Royal Family has legions of fans across the world. Any Royal news is pored over by enthusiastic members of the public and royal watchers alike.
Well, palace intrigue got the better of writer Amber-Louise who tried eating like the Queen’s corgis for a day. She researched the royal dogs' diet and created a dish that would be served to the hungry corgis.
Amber-Louise is a pet owner herself, so she had some inkling about the sort of food that would be served to dogs. However even she seemed surprised by the amount of effort and care that is taken in preparing dishes for the royal corgis.
Here is what she thought about the royal dogs’ menu as by MyLondon.
I doubt the saying "it's a dog's life" means much to the Queen's pets. A day in the life of a royal dog, with a palace to run around and a personalised menu from royal chefs to enjoy, must be anything but boring.
Yep, you read that right. They have their own menu.
I wasn't expecting the Queen's corgis to eat tinned wet food but I also wasn't expecting them to have a chef. I was almost jealous when I found out.
So what does a Queen's corgi's menu look like? In 2020, former royal chef Darren McGrady said he would regularly cook for the dogs when he wasn't preparing food for Her Majesty or her presidential guests.
The meals, he divulged, had three main components: protein, rice, and sometimes cabbage. Talking in a YouTube video, Darren McGrady claimed: "It was almost like an a la carte restaurant for the royal corgis (...)
"The dogs would have a whole selection of meats, cabbage, and rice. The most important part of preparing the meat," he added, "was that everything had to be cut into a fine dice (...) to be sure there were no bones."
And then he went on to do a fancy technique with his knife that I would never be able to emulate or pronounce. 'Well,' I thought, 'chicken with rice and veg - that's human food, I could eat that.'
Unfortunately I didn't have a chef to prepare mine (am I really getting jealous of dogs again?) but I followed Darren's instructions as best as I could and prepared myself a meal fit for a royal...corgi. According to Darren, the corgis would either have chicken, beef, rabbit or liver as their protein.
Funnily enough my local Tesco Express didn't have rabbit or liver on the shelves so it would have to be chicken or beef. I went with roast chicken.
I diced the chicken with my Argos knives, knowing my version of the meal probably paled in comparison to the corgis’ who would apparently often get freshly hunted rabbit. I then added a portion of rice and some shredded cabbage.
It wasn't the most adventurous meal (a bit of sweet chilli sauce would have gone a long way) but hey, it had a good selection of the food groups. With some added flavour I'd happily eat this, and it is far fancier than anything I'd expect to give a pet.
I've eaten worse, especially as a student when my diet mostly consisted of pasta with butter and pot noodles. I bet Candy the dorgi would turn her wet nose up at a pot noodle if her chef dared to put it on her a la carte menu.
If you're wondering just how dedicated to the cause of eating like a corgi I was, I tried to maintain a sliver of decorum by using a plate and cutlery (that's right, Corgis, I have opposable thumbs - you should be jealous of me). I suppose it shouldn't be a surprise the Queen's pets are treated so royally - she adores her dogs, after all.
Her Majesty has owned more than 30 Corgis in her lifetime. The Queen currently has four dogs: two corgis, one dorgi (dachshund and corgi mix) and a cocker spaniel.
I think once my cockapoo finds out about the whole royal chef menu thing he's going to be trying to ship himself to Buckingham Palace to join the crew.
