Princess Diana has always been known as a trendsetter, and apparently, that’s also true when it comes to what she used to love to eat for breakfast. According to her former chef, Darren McGrady, Diana was a big fan of overnight oats decades before they became a trendy way to start your day on social media, and she loved them so much she’d eat them every single day.
As People reported, Darren worked as a chef to the royals from 1982 to 1997, first cooking for Queen Elizabeth before becoming Diana’s chef in 1993, and preparing meals and snacks for her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. In that time, it sounds like he got to know the Princess of Wales and her kids pretty well, and he’s been sharing their favorite recipes and tidbits of their time together.
In one of the latest videos that the chef posted to his YouTube channel, he shared exactly how to make her favorite overnight oats recipe, and it’s easy to see why she loved it so much: It looks really tasty!
“When I became Princess Diana’s chef, she got her life back on track. She was a patron of 119 different charities, she was working out at the gym three days a week and just looking the best she ever did,” Darren said in the video. “She said, ‘Darren, you take care of all the fats, and I’ll take care of the carbs at the gym.’ Now this meant she was now eating healthy, and her go-to breakfast was something called overnight oats.”
He went on to explain that Diana was introduced to the oats while she was at a Swiss health clinic, where she “stole the recipe” and brought it home so she could ask Darren to prepare it for her daily breakfast.
Made with rolled oats, fruit such as apples and blueberries, raw honey, and Greek yogurt, the oats really do look good, and Darren seemed to agree.
“Now, I have to admit that when I was making this at Kensington Palace for Princess Diana, it was so good, I actually used to double the recipe so that the chef got it for breakfast, too,” he said.
She might have been one of the first to discover overnight oats, but decades later, they’re more popular than she probably ever thought. See? Total trendsetter.
