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Darren McGrady

After 15 years of royal service to Queen Elizabeth II of England and Diana, Princess of Wales Darren is now employed as a private chef in Dallas, Texas. He has appeared as a guest on CNN’s Larry King Live, cooked on the CBS Early Show IN New York, CNN covering the Royal Wedding, Good Morning Texas, CBS 11 and WFAA news and the BBC and SKY television and radio in England and across Europe. Darren was born in Nottinghamshire, England and after graduating college with the U.S. equivalent of a bachelor’s degree in culinary arts he went on to train at the prestigious Savoy Hotel in London. In 1982 he moved to the Royal Kitchen at Buckingham Palace where for 11 years he cooked for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and their guests on a daily basis and catered banquets for Foreign Heads of State including Presidents Bush, Clinton, Reagan and Ford. His duties included traveling with the royal family to Windsor Castle, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle as well as on the royal yacht Britannia on royal tours around the world. In 1993 he moved to Kensington Palace as Private Chef to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales. For four years (until the tragic accident in August 1997) he took control of Princess Diana’s, William’s, and Harry’s day-to-day menus and the preparation and catering... Next

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