Queen Elizabeth's symbolic actions included ordering a special Christmas dinner for the corgis

Christmas is one of the most important times of the year for the royal family, but at the same time there are many rules and traditions. And when it comes to what the royal family eats for Christmas, even the family's pets get special treatment.

Queen Elizabeth is known for her love of corgis, and it seems that royal pets were treated as part of the family during the holiday season. According to former royal chef Darren McGrady, the royal family prepared a special menu for Christmas dinner, and so did the late queen's corgis.

“There was actually another menu, and that was the Royal Corgi menu,” McGrady told Yahoo U.K.'s “The Royal Story” (via the Daily Mail) about the Christmas dinner at Sandringham. McGrady's revelation is not quite surprising, especially as he previously spoke about the food he had to prepare for the Queen's dogs all year round.

“When I worked at the palace, we actually had a royal menu for the dogs,” Mac Grady told Hello! magazine. 'Mrs. Fennick, who looked after the dogs at Sandringham, would select a menu each month and send it to us in the kitchen.'

As for what the queen's corgis were happy to eat, McGrady said, “One day it was beef, the next day chicken, the next day lamb, the next day rabbit, and so on, alternating from day to day. When the beef was brought in, we cooked it and diced it really fine, and did the same with the chicken. We chopped it really fine so that the dog would not choke and there would be no bones.”

Mc Grady also noted that the monarch loved the corgi so much that he “fed it himself, I think after tea.”

Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew inherited Queen Elizabeth's corgi after her death, so the dogs will not spend Christmas 2024 at Sandringham. It was previously reported that Andrew and Ferguson would spend Christmas together at a shared house, the Royal Lodge in Windsor. 13]

As for what the royal family itself will eat for Christmas dinner, former royal butler Grant Harold, acting for Spin Genie, told The Sun told The Sun, “It's a traditional Christmas lunch, with goose, turkey, and obviously all the trimmings.”

The royal family also has a Christmas lunch at the Royal Palace, which is “a traditional Christmas lunch, with goose, turkey, and obviously all the trimmings.