Royal Family Easter celebrations: Prince William, Harry’s plans REVEALED

This week, just like many families around the world, King Charles will have sat down with his family for a special Easter lunch, and a Palace chef is spilling the beans about the royals’ traditional Easter celebrations.

Talking to OK! Magazine, Chef Darren McGrady, who worked with the royal family for 15 years, shared how the family gathers together after church service on Easter for a lavish meal, and although some senior royals may have missed Easter this time, there’s little chance that the festivities will have dampened.

Read on to find out how the royal family celebrates the special occasion of Easter while incorporating tradition into their day.

King Charles’ Easter celebration with royal family

McGrady shares that the royals go straight into the main course when they sit down for Easter lunch after a special church service at the St George’s Chapel in Windsor.

“We'd go straight into the main course—a traditional roast lamb with seasonal vegetable," he shared.

The royal staffers also reportedly prepare a staple on the royal Easter menu: “a compound salad served in a kidney dish attached to the plate, consisting of lettuce and cucumber with a little mint or some grated carrot and coriander.”

The second course comes straight from Windsor Castle grounds to the royal feast, McGrady revealed. “The most incredible sweet white Windsor peaches grew on the estate too in my day. We’d have to lock them away in the kitchens because everyone wanted to taste them.”

Easter treats

Apart from lavish meals specially prepared in the royal kitchens, the family also enjoys typical Easter treats like the good ol’ Easter egg.

According to McGrady, King Charles, and specially Prince Harry and William, enjoy feasting on chocolate Easter eggs to mark the occasion, with the treats being sourced from Charbonnel et Walker, a quintessentially British chocolatier with a royal warrant, that sells handcrafted Easter eggs.

Harry and William are known to enjoy the same, with their late mom Princess Diana reportedly treating them to Charbonnel eggs on Easter, as per her former butler Paul Burrell.

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s Easter celebrations

Prince William and wife Kate Middleton famously missed the royal family Easter celebrations last year, owing to Kate’s battle with cancer, and it was expected that the future King and Queen would be seen at St George’s Chapel this year.

However, the Prince and Princess of Wales, who have officially resumed their public royal duties after a tumultuous 2024, are trading in royal Easter celebrations for some family time, it has been reported as per Mirror UK.

The couple will instead celebrate Easter with their three children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, at their Anmer Hall residence in Norfolk.

Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s Easter celebrations

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle obviously will not be celebrating with the royal family; since stepping down as working senior royals in 2020, the couple has relocated to the US, where they enjoy family holidays at their Montecito residence.

Much like the last five years, the Sussexes will probably mark Easter Sunday at home with their two kids, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, and while little is known about how they choose to spend their day, Prince Harry has reportedly kept one Victorian Easter tradition alive with his kids; the couple organise and enjoy Easter egg hunts with their little ones.

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