The Queen once told staff that the dogs were ‘better fed’ than her at Buckingham Palace, former butler reveals

YOU might expect catering at Buckingham Palace to be second to none, but that’s not always the case according to the Queen.

In fact Her Majesty once told staff that the dogs were “better fed” than she was, according to royal butler Paul Kidd.

Kidd, who worked at the palace between 1975 and 1982, recalled the Queen’s remark in the documentary Royal Servants.

He explained: “When I served lunch to the Queen for the very first time in my life, she picked the menu up, she said ‘What have I got for lunch?’

“And she’s reading the menu, she had her spectacles on and she put it back and she looked at me, gave me a beautiful smile and said ‘I think the dogs get better fed.’”

She may have had a point as it is no secret that the Queen’s corgis were particularly well fed.

Speaking to Hello! Online, former royal chef Darren McGrady revealed that Her Majesty insisted the pampered dogs had their own special menu which changed every day.

"When I worked at the palace, we actually had a royal menu for the dogs," explained the ex-royal staff member - who worked for the Queen for 11 years.

The chef said that a woman called Mrs Fennick, who looked after the dogs at Sandringham, would send details of their meal plan to his kitchen each month.

"It would list each day what the dogs were to have. One day it would be beef, the next day chicken, the next day lamb, the next day rabbit and it alternated through those days.

"The beef would come in, we would cook it, dice it into really fine pieces and then we did same with the chicken."

It was also revealed by a royal expert that the Queen has her own secret-recipe gravy that is served to her dogs on a silver tray by a footman.

However, other insiders previously claimed that the monarch feeds her pooches Tesco dog food.

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