Remembering Queen Elizabeth II – The Taucker Travel Blog

Our longtime world wide partnership with Carolyn Robb, formerly then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s govt chef for 13 a long time, has enriched guests’ travels in the British isles through unique presentations stuffed with powering-the-scenes stories (and recipes). It’s been a single thirty day period since the passing of Queen Elizabeth, and we’re honored to share with you Carolyn’s own, heartfelt reflections.

Wednesday evening (September 7th 2022), for the duration of a cheerful Tauck England, Scotland & Wales tour farewell evening meal, I talked at size to the team about my former boss, Prince Charles, and why, in the fullness of time, I understood he would make a amazing King. Considerably less than 24 several hours afterwards His Majesty King Charles III ascended to the throne. Even as gorgeous bouquets are laid in terrific swathes in each corner of the place, by those people paying out their respects to our late Queen, it nonetheless by some means seems surreal and inconceivable that our one particular ‘constant’ in excess of the earlier 70 a long time, is no for a longer period with us.

Through my extraordinary 13 a long time as a Royal chef, I was massively privileged to fulfill The Queen on quite a few situations each individual one so memorable in its own way. All through my initial handful of months at Kensington Palace, when I was cooking for TRH The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and their youngsters, I accompanied them to Windsor Castle, where by they were being signing up for the once-a-year Royal Relatives Xmas collecting. On Xmas morning, (the a single working day in the 12 months when I experienced assumed that the Queen would not undertake any ‘duties’) I was shocked to be known as to a single of the drawing rooms in the castle, alongside with all the other associates of team who have been on duty that working day. Her Majesty shook each and every of us by the hand, reported a handful of text and handed out beautifully wrapped gifts. I was thrilled with the beautiful lavender soap that she kindly gave me, but that paled into insignificance compared to the gift of her time. Her text to me were warm, participating and humorous and most notably, it was an ‘un-rushed’ conversation, regardless of there becoming a place full of people today for her to ‘get through’ just before she could relax and love the day’s festivities with her household. She commented on the reality that I was doing work on Christmas working day I want I experienced experienced the existence of intellect at the time to request her if she at any time, ever gave herself a ‘day off’.

I imagine I know what the reply would have been.