With Easter Sunday fast approaching, members of the Royal Family are no doubt excited to mark the occasion together. As well as attending a Sunday service at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, members of the Royal Family tend to enjoy an Easter Sunday lunch together afterwards. Like at Christmas, the lunch is one of the biggest events for the family in their personal calendars and gives them all an opportunity to come together.
It also gives them the opportunity to enjoy a very impressive lunch spread, which contains ingredients from the royal estates. Former royal chef Darren McGrady previously told OK! Magazine all about what food is on offer, confirming that tradition is for a roast lamb to be served, which in Christianity symbolises the ‘sacrificial lamb’ mentioned in the Old Testament.
Talking about what royals can find on the menu on Easter Sunday, Mr McGrady told OK! magazine: “We’d go straight into the main course – a traditional roast lamb with seasonal vegetable.
“They’d also have a compound salad served in a kidney dish attached to the plate – just some lettuce and cucumber with a little mint or some grated carrot and coriander.”
According to the former chef, a second course would then be served consisting of cheese locally supplied from the Windsor Dairy, close to the royal estate, and peaches.
He said: “The most incredible sweet white Windsor peaches grew on the estate too in my day. We’d have to lock them away in the kitchens because everyone wanted to taste them.”
While people may expect a fancy dessert to be on the menu, the royal chef said it is in fact Easter eggs, which usually come from Charbonnel et Walker.
As well as enjoying a lunch together, it is believed the royals also hold an Easter egg hunt, which has been a tradition for a number of years.
