What Princess Anne has eats for breakfast and dinner has been revealed - and it might make you feel sick.
The Princess Royal is well-regarded as the hardest working royal - having carried out over 20,000 engagements. But the question as to what she fuels herself with has been answered - and to say it's unusual would be an understatement.
As reported by the Mirror, the Princess, who was at the Queen's bedside when she died at Balmoral last week and accompanied her coffin when it was flown back to London, has similar tastes to her late mother. The Princess is said to favour practical, healthy and vitamin-rich foods over rich and exuberant dishes - and just like her brother, King Charles III, is known to often skip lunch.
There is one aspect of Anne's diet that is rather out of the ordinary - the way she eats bananas.
Breakfast
The Princess Royal reportedly likes to start her day with a bowl of fruit - but hers probably looks a lot different to a standard one. It's been widely claimed that Anne has a very strange request for her bananas - as she prefers them to be overripe and going mouldy.
Former royal chef Darren McGrady previously told TODAY: "Princess Anne almost always preferred the bananas almost black - over ripe - because they digested easier."
Brown bananas are typically much sweeter because all the starch and chlorophyll in the fruit has broken down into sugar, which is why they are often used in baking. Royals traditionally always eat with cutlery, so Anne would have to eat her overripe bananas in a very specific way.
Chef Darren explained: "First, the ends of the banana are cut off. Then the banana peel is sliced down the middle from end to end so the unpeeled fruit can be opened.
"The fruit is sliced into circles and eaten with a fork."
Lunch
Just like her older brother, Anne is known to usually swerve lunch - but she doesn't go hungry.
When the Princess is feeling peckish, she opens up her handbag and takes out a kiwi, which she always keeps in there for emergencies. Her daughter, Zara Phillips, once revealed: "She always has a kiwi fruit."
Ther 'superfruit' has more vitamin C than an orange plus a large dose of vitamin K - and can aid the digestion of meat and other protein.
Princes Anne is also known to enjoy kippers - and once sent a complimentary letter to Fortune Kippers, a 140-year-old company based in Whitby, North Yorkshire, about their salty fish.
The company's website reveals: "Members of the Royal Family have also been known to enjoy our kippers and HRH the Princess Anne has written to Barry and Derek telling them how much she enjoys their kippers."
The Princess Royal is probably fond of an afternoon tea, just like her late mother.
Dinner
Princess Anne does enjoy a fancy dinner - and her favourite dish was revealed when she guest-edited an edition of Country Life magazine for her 70th birthday in 2020.
Anne's perfect meal is devilled pheasant - and the Ritz's Executive Chef, John Williams, shared the decadent-yet-simple recipe,
John explained: "Basically, a couple of whole pheasants are poached, then taken off the bone, shredded and kept warm in the poaching juices.
"You just add freshly whipped cream, left in the fridge for an hour to stiffen, mixed with a good amount of Green Label mango chutney."
British game is typically leaner and higher in protein than typical farmed meats - and tends to have more flavour.
John added that Anne's perfect accompaniment is Sharwood’s Green Label chutney, adding: "I went out and found that especially!"
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