In addition to reasons of health, protocol and personal preferences, there is also another factor that the members of the British royal family they have “forbidden” foods.

As a celebrity recently revealed former royal chefamong the foods she never eats Kate Middleton (and the whole royal family) is… the toast – generally sandwiches that are square in shape – due to old prejudices!

In a documentary called Secrets of the Royal Kitchen, Graham Newbould explained that behind this strange ban lies a superstition centuries.

As the Mirror writes, according to the former chef of Kensington and Buckingham Palaces, “the members of the royal family never eat square sandwiches because tradition says that anyone who offers them food with sharp edges tries to overthrow the throne».

In fact, in all the years he worked at the Palace, he never delivered a corner dish to the late Queen Elizabethhowever she accompanied her tea with rounded sandwiches.

Finally, the Sun reports that there was yet another reason that Queen Victoria’s husband, prince albert, he was fussy about the shape of his food.

“It is thought that Albert followed the same superstitious beliefs because he believed that eating coffin-shaped food brought bad luck» reads the article.