Queen’s Pastry Chef Goes After 35 Years
The Queen’s long-serving pastry chef, Robert Pine, has quit following an alleged set-to with new Head Chef Mark Flanagan.
Flanagan, said to be “with the temper but not the talent” of TV chef Gordon Ramsay, has been the cause of tensions and walkouts below stairs ever since his appointment in 2002. On one occasion he lost his temper during a banquet for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and shook a kitchen porter so violently he had to be hospitalized.
Pine, who has served the Queen for 35 years and is responsible for her favourite chocolate tortes, is the latest victim, it seems. Reports suggest that he may well have a future in America, where Royal talent is keenly sought after.
This photo is Mr Darren McGrady & not Mr Robert Pine,
Mr McGrady is presently residing in Texas & has been for some time where he is Chef for a private family, Mr Mcgrady did for some years work in the pastry kitchen at Buckingham Palace alongside Mr Pine then left to be chef for The Prince & Princess of Wales, would be nice if when reading something like this, that the proper photos are included in the stoyline.
Yours, Michael Dunn GC
Executive/Owner “Dunn With Flair” Catering
Brockville On. Canada
Former Chef to Her Majesty The Queen 1972-88
By Michael Dunn GC on November 24th, 2007 at 6:43 pm