King Charles III former staff reveal his 'unusual' breakfast order

As it said the monarch prefers to skip and follow a vegetarian diet for at least one day a week, but he has one specific breakfast request. 

It is reported that the King typically asks for a perfectly soft boiled, or coddled egg every morning, according to MyLondon. 

Although it's not the first that such claims have been reported, as broadcaster and journalist Jeremy Paxam wrote in his book On Royalty that the King asks for seven eggs to be cooked every morning so at least one is to his liking. 

As Paxman wrote: "Because his staff were never quite sure whether the egg would be precisely to the satisfactory hardness, a series of eggs was cooked, and laid out in an ascending row of numbers.

If the prince felt that number five was too runny, he could knock the top off number six or seven."

However, back when the book was published, staff at Buckingham Palace were quick to voice their thoughts as, former private chef of the King, Mervyn Wycherley said: "His eggs had to be boiled for exactly four minutes. It was never anything other than a four-minute egg. I always kept three pans boiling — just to be safe.”

According to the Evening Standard, the King has himself attempted to shut down the rumours, stating that they were "completely untrue".

However, former staff of the King, Wendy Berry wrote in her 1995 book The Housekeeper's Dairy: "After the day’s hunting, Charles would usually be invited back to a fellow huntman’s home for tea. Occasionally, however, he invited people he met out on the field back to Highgrove for boiled eggs and whiskey.

“When this happened, his detective would ring ahead on the mobile phone to give us advance warning of the numbers expected. I knew that Charles wanted his eggs cooked for three minutes exactly and that Mervyn usually had several pots on the go to ensure that at least one batch was perfect. The others were simply thrown away.”