"No food really fit for a King can any longer be eaten by His Majesty," one of Buckingham Palace's chefs complained last year and last week ''Chummy" asked permission to resign.
Chummy, as members of the Royal family insist upon calling Chef Gabriel Tschumi, is Swiss. When his father, a professor, was killed in an accident, Chummy became apprenticed to the Royal kitchens, has been there 34 years. Discreet, he would say no more last week than "I want to resign."
Facts are that since His Majesty's pneumonia George V has seemed to...
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