An Upcoming RWC Event

Chef McGrady will be available to autograph his book afterwards.

After 15 years of royal service to Queen Elizabeth II of England and Diana, Princess of Wales, Darren is now employed as a private chef in Dallas, Texas. He has appeared several times as a guest on CNN’s Larry King Live, and was on the Princess Diana Memorial on the Fox News Channel "Fox and Friends". He additionally cooked on the Today Show and CBS Early Show in New York, was on CNN's coverage of the Royal Wedding, and has appeared on Good Morning Texas, CBS 11 Fox 4, WFAA news and the BBC and SKY television and radio in England and across Europe.

Declining an offer from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to become his Private Chef at St James Palace, Darren decided to pursue a new challenge in the U.S.A. where he moved to in 1998 with his wife Wendy. They have three children, Kelly, Lexie and Harry.

Since the Princess’s death, he has devoted much of his free time working for causes she supported, including shelters for battered women, charities for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities and breast cancer charities. Darren is a board member of the Pink Ribbons Crusade, a not for profit charity that uses its museum type exhibit “A Date with Diana” to promote Breast Cancer awareness.

He teaches cooking classes and his first cookbook, Eating Royally: Recipes and Remembrances of a Palace Kitchen, was published by Thomas Nelson in July 2007. All of his advances and royalties from the book go to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation. Darren has a website www.theroyalchef.com that has stories and photos of his Royal service as well as favorite recipes of the Royal family.