Princely palate means Harry still loves ‘meat and potatoes’, says Meghan

Telegraph reportersSun, July 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC

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Creating a meal ‘fit for a Duchess’ was the task facing Australian contestants being judged by Meghan on MasterChef

The Duke of Sussex may have left Britain, but he can’t let go of the old country’s traditional diet, his wife has revealed.

Even after moving more than 5,000 miles to California, the Prince still prefers “meat, potatoes and cream sauce” for dinner.

The Duchess shone a light on her family’s mealtimes when she appeared as a guest judge on the 18th season of MasterChef Australia on Sunday.

The episode included a video call from the Prince, when he called to check in on his wife as she was judging the dishes.

“Hi, my love,” she said after producers handed her the phone, introducing him to contestants and judges and showing him the dishes. “My husband’s here,” she told the crowd, as the Prince greeted the Australian group with a “G’Day”.

“He’s a charmer, isn’t he?” she said after the phone call ended.

The Duchess surprised contestants with a video call from Prince Harry

During the show, which was filmed during the couple’s week-long trip to Australia in April, contestants were challenged to transform a staple ingredient into a dish “fit for a duchess”.

The Duchess praised contestant Aaron Kher’s dish but joked that it packed “too much” spice for her husband – a culinary aversion he may share with his father.

Darren McGrady, a Royal family chef for 15 years, has previously disclosed that the King’s favourites include organic eggs and cheese and that he does not like anything too spicy.

Asked about cooking for her family, the Duchess of Sussex said she had “a lot of palates to appease” and that her children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, were “great eaters” who enjoyed Brussels sprouts.

“The kids jump in a lot, especially with the garden,” she said, describing how the family often prepares food together.

The Duchess added: “Family time, I think, is really key to connect through food, so as many meals as we can do together, we always do.”

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She said her husband’s British upbringing meant he preferred “meat, potatoes and cream sauce,” while the California-born duchess favoured a more Mediterranean-style diet of grilled meats, fish and citrus.

A previous announcement from the Sussexes described the new season of the cooking show as featuring some of the “most impressive amateur cooks the competition has ever seen”.

The Duke and Duchess’s Australian visit included meetings with mental health charities, Invictus veterans and survivors and emergency service personnel from the Bondi Beach terror attack.

“We love Australia. We had the most sentimental, amazing time. We were here almost eight years ago,” the duchess said of her visit.

“We announced we were pregnant with Archie at the time. It’s full circle.”

Previous seasons of the Australian show have aired in Britain on Channel 4, with British guest judges including Gordon Ramsay, Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal and Jamie Oliver.

It is understood that she was not paid for her appearance on the cooking programme.

The Duchess had described the show as featuring ‘the most impressive amateur cooks the competition has ever seen’

The airing of the show comes just weeks after the Duke and Duchess made their first trip to Britain together in more than four years.

It included a private audience at Highgrove House in which the King was reunited with his grandchildren.

The Duchess did not make any public appearances during her time in the UK, having flown in privately with the children from Europe, where they had been on holiday in Portugal.

The Duke had been visiting to promote the Invictus Games in Birmingham next year, and used a public appearance to describe himself as a “full-time dad”.

The visit coincided with the High Court judgment in which the Duke lost his £50m phone-hacking claim against the publisher of the Daily Mail.

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