Darren in Todays Huffington Post

How Princess Diana duped Oprah over Royal lunch.

“They were the happiest times at Kensington,” Darren McGrady remembered about the four years he worked as Princess Diana’s personal chef at Kensington Palace.

McGrady had worked for Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace for 11 years before the Princess of Wales asked him to join her, Prince William and Prince Harry at Kensington, where they lived after her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996 But he took the opportunity to leave the “Downton Abbey”-esque formality and enter Diana’s world, one that eschewed all of the stuffy traditions in lieu of a warmer, more personable approach to living — and eating — royally.

Gone were the grand banquet tables — Diana preferred a round table that sat 10 people so that she could connect with everyone she ate with. “If she was on her own for lunch, she’d actually come and eat in the kitchen on the countertop,” McGrady said. “I’d make a tray for her and I’d just be tidying up the kitchen and things as we were chatting.”

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