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RAYMOND’S ROYAL SEAL OF APPROVAL

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In an interview with Jenny Johnston for Weekend magazine, Raymond, whose restaurant has two Michelin stars, said that some of his fondest memories from his career involve another tiny yet formidable lady – the Queen Mother.

He would cook for her

(left, with Raymond), and sometimes the Queen too, at the house of her horse trainer. ‘Often the Queen Mother would leave her daughter and come into the kitchen with me and talk in French for an hour. She loved France.’ One of his biggest achievemen­ts was convincing her to sing the French national anthem in a room full of English people at his restaurant, Le Manoir aux Quat’saisons.

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