Princess Kate is ‘okay with spice,’ ‘loves coriander & chili’ & drinks sugarless tea

Here are more photos from the Princess of Wales’s ONE public event last week, her visit to Leicester. I’m including some photos where her hairpiece is especially noticeable, because she really plops it on the back of her head and heads out the door. The hairpiece last week wasn’t even the same color as the rest of her hair. Unfortunately, Getty included some closeups of Kate’s feet, aka Quentin Tarantino-bait. She went barefoot in the Shreeji Dham Haveli Hindu Temple and people were talking about her feet for days. Here’s the thing: I have janky feet as well, it comes from being a long-time walker/hiker. Kate is also big into hiking and walking, and when you walk or hike for miles nearly every day, your feet are quite beat-up. Still, for someone who rarely works and spends a lot of money, Kate might want to invest in semi-regular pedicures, or at least trim her toenails. Meanwhile, at a local Indian restaurant in Leicester, Kate ended up talking about food and spice.

Kate Middleton dished about her culinary preferences at her latest royal outing. On March 5, the Princess of Wales, 44, shared the scoop at Bobby’s, a family-run Indian restaurant on Leicester’s iconic “Golden Mile.” Princess Kate visited Leicester to celebrate the culture, community and heritage of the British Indian community there, following the Hindu festival of Holi on March 4.

During her stop at Bobby’s, a family-run restaurant named after the award-winning 1973 Bollywood film, Kate asked if a treat she was going to try was “sweet or savory” in a video shared to X by royal editor Rebecca English of the Daily Mail.

The Princess of Wales then checked out another confection, said she was “okay with spice” and took a bite as she sat with the restaurant’s owners, Dharmesh and Enna Lakhani.

“Mmm. Is this coriander?” the royal remarked. “I love coriander and chili.”

While cilantro and coriander are different terms for the same plant, cilantro is used to refer to the fresh herb, while coriander is typically used for the spice.

In another tidbit about what she ate at Bobby’s, Hello! magazine reported that Princess Kate declined to add sugar to her tea.

[From People]

I have no idea how people can drink sugarless tea, but then again, I don’t know how (British) people put so much cream in their tea. It doesn’t say if Kate put cream or milk in her tea, and I suspect she wasn’t just raw-dogging tea with no sugar or cream. As for the spice, we’ve heard that Kate (and not William) likes spicy food and she can handle it. I believe it, I guess.

On Sunday, Kate also marked International Women’s Day with a social media post. She signed it “C” so we know it’s only from her. Prince William does not celebrate International Women’s Day or women in general.

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78 Responses to “Princess Kate is ‘okay with spice,’ ‘loves coriander & chili’ & drinks sugarless tea”

  1. TheresaJanes says:

    My goodness, the bar is SO LOW!

    • BeanieBean says:

      I know! It’s hilarious!

    • Swaz says:

      Is that Kate’s feet 😏😏😏 I guess my pedicure can last another week 🤣🤣

      • Where'sMyTiara says:

        The bunion misery is real…

        Also please gods someone send a hair stylist to her Lodge to get her bio hair dyed up to match her capybara. No one in a family with as much money as they have should be looking like that on the street.

        Value for Money, right Rota? Charles?

  2. Miranda says:

    “Today we celebrate the kindness, resilience and quiet strength of women in our families and communities”

    Except your pregnant and suicidal sister-in-law. Bully the f–k out of her, right?

    • Interested Gawker says:

      Right?!

      They should have a voiceover of Kate reading that over footage of the funeral walkabout and photos of her snubbing Meghan and her baby at the polo match.

      • Unblinkered says:

        That shows how phoney KM is.

        I’ll say it again, KM will never know any peace until she publically apologises to Meghan for not disclaiming the lie that M made her cry. And that it was in fact she, KM, who made Meghan cry – and was vile to her in the run-up to H&M’s wedding.

        Well, we can always hope.

    • Tessa says:

      Keen has no women friends. She told a lie about her sister in law And never denied the lie of the crying story to the media

    • SussexWatcher says:

      Right?! Lying liars gonna lie. The only women and girls she cares about are herself, her mother, and her daughter. And I’m not even sure she cares about herself or she would have left Scooter years ago, but especially after whatever happened on that December night.

    • kelleybelle says:

      Exactly what I was thinking, and the fact that she was insanely jealous of Meghan to begin with because she will never be anything LIKE Meghan.

  3. Tuesday says:

    GIRL! Please spend an hour on YouTube learning how to blend your hair pieces. This shit is ridiculous.

  4. Lamb Chop says:

    Must assume this is why derangers are always piling on about Meghan’s feet- projection once again. And there’s nothing wrong with Meghan’s feet. Kate could easily get bunion surgery.

    Eta more ai slop from kate. She obviously never has to have an original thought ever again – if she ever has, which i doubt.

    • Miranda says:

      Wait, what is this about the derangers obsessing over Meghan’s feet? What are they saying?

      • Lamb Chop says:

        I haven’t been in derangerville for a few years but they would cr@p on about her having ugly feet , bunions, ill-fitting shoes. It was bizarre but so is all their imaginings. Posts especially about her gorgeous shoes would cop those comments.

      • Miranda says:

        OK, “bizarre” seems like the best word for that behavior. What a bunch of freaks.

        And yeah, Meghan does usually have gorgeous shoes. She’s the reason that Aquazzura has become my most frequent splurge/gift from my husband brand.

    • Jais says:

      When she first went missing, one of my first thoughts was that she had had bunion surgery. Commenters here have said the surgery is really painful with a lengthy recovery. It does seem painful.

      • Lamb Chop says:

        A friend of mine had both feet done (surgeon made an error and did wrong foot so she got one for free) she never complained about the pain. It does seem like it would be. Kate wouldn’t have to do anything other than rest up.

      • Christine says:

        I remember thinking you could be right, because there was that photo going around showing her pinky toe escaping her shoe, and her feet looking particularly rough in general. I can’t actually believe she let this happen, she has to know what her own feet look like!

        My pet peeve is feet. Yes, feet, if you couldn’t tell.

      • Tuesday says:

        I’ve had bunion surgery, it was 6 weeks in a boot cast and then physical therapy, but other than the initial healing of the actual wound, it wasn’t that bad.

      • Mac says:

        My sisters say bunion surgery is life changing, but they also think Lactaid is life changing so I don’t know where the bar is with them. Does it make a huge difference? I’ve been putting it off for years.

    • sunniside up says:

      My MIL had bunion surgery, it was a long time before she could walk again, another excuse for Kate to put her feet up.

  5. Ok she likes spice. Yes the girl needs to take better care of her feet!! This is all they have? That tracks because she is very dull.

    • Jais says:

      Honestly, it is a bit of a dull read. She likes spice. Yay? I’d have rather gotten more details about the restaurant.

      • Yes that would have been nice for more restaurant details but we must remember that this is PR for Can’t so it must be all about her boring self.

      • Jais says:

        And it’s also People Mag. But more details of the restaurant in the uk press would make sense.

    • Barbara says:

      What they left out is that she eats her “spices” with a helping of air and iceberg lettuce. So exotic! Lol

  6. Tessa says:

    And keen makes it know that she does not want Beatrice and Eugenie at ascot or she will not go.

  7. L84Tea says:

    Youch! It’s clear that years of too-tight heels have beaten her feet up. Her toes didn’t used to look so gnarled up back in her wedge days.

    • Hypocrisy says:

      She wears her shoes to small, I’ve always winced when I’ve seen how she stuffs her feet into those 👠 heels.. a common mistake many women make because most women’s feet tend to swell and even a little bit of swelling as the day progresses can cause a lot of pain and eventually foot damage..

      • BeanieBean says:

        My mother used to wear stilettos (not my thing); she told me she always got them a half-size bigger to accommodate her toes. Kate apparently doesn’t know that trick. Her toes look permanently bent from being crammed into too-small shoes.

      • Hannah1 says:

        Definitely stiletto heels are a culprit. Plus your feet get larger as you age, especially if you spend time putting stress on them. Do we know she actually ‘likes’ walking and hiking or is it hours on the stair stepper each day? Either way — hello, gravity. Your ‘shoe size’ is not a particular number you used to be able to squeeze into.

    • Nic919 says:

      Also stilettos jam your toes in the shoe and she wears them so high it’s clear she’s messed up her feet.

    • SpankFD says:

      Genuine beauty secret: I go up a shoe size with every inch of heel height. And my feet are doing well, thank you very much. I would not claim, however, that my feet are “Tarantino Ready.” No. Not that.

  8. Diana says:

    “Her” comment is such a trad-wife view of women

    • BeanieBean says:

      That was my thinking. I’m single & childfree & I am not a nurturing kind of person. And quiet strength? Nah, I’ll let you know when I’ve done something fab, I’m not keeping it hidden.

      • Nic919 says:

        Having children doesn’t make a woman a caring person and kate is a prime example of that.

        Her kids will reveal more as time goes on because you can’t hide that mess forever.

  9. SarahCS says:

    I don’t think anyone puts cream in their tea.

    • Hypocrisy says:

      I have never sweetened my tea or used anything except lemon 🍋 other than the southern states where “sweet tea” seems to be a must I truthfully didn’t think many people actually added sugar to tea hot or cold.. maybe honey 🍯 but always lemon and never sugar for me.

      • sunniside up says:

        Tea just with milk for me, never sugar. I put sugar in coffee but then I don’t really like the taste without it.

      • Becks1 says:

        omg I LOVE Sugar and milk in my hot tea. So good.

        I don’t drink that most mornings – I put stupid Nutpods vanilla creamer in (stupid because I would rather have milk and sugar lol) but once in a while for a treat I add sugar. I think its fairly common, depending on the specific tea.

      • BeanieBean says:

        I like my iced tea ‘unsweet’ (southern term) and my hot tea milk-free. When I lived in Georgia & had to travel throughout the South for work, I swear I could ask for unsweet tea but it was always 50-50 whether I’d get it that way. Same with my year in England. I’d ask for black tea, no milk, but still would get it with milk as likely as not. Both places are so used to their own norm they just automatically make it that way.

    • Eurydice says:

      I don’t like sweet beverages of any sort. Except when I’m sick – then it’s hot tea with oceans of lemon and sugar. Otherwise, it’s just black coffee, black tea and tap water. My friends say it’s like I’m living in the Great Depression…or maybe I’m giving them a great depression…

    • Fifee says:

      Drank tea until I was around 18 then switched to coffee. My family were a mix of sugar, sweeteners, milk and black tea. No cream other than in a coffee whenever my mother it for baking.

      I was an office junior for best part of a year and myself and the other juniors made tea & coffee for the office and there was no cream, just semi skimmed milk and the occasional sugar/sweetner and a director enjoyed a small bit of honey in his.

    • SK says:

      Agree- I’ve never heard of anyone putting cream in their tea. Milk, yes

  10. Kittenmom says:

    Quiet strength, huh? So someone does not believe that women should use their voices.

  11. Blujfly says:

    Her IWD message wa pathetic and reflective of how she believes women should be – seen and not heard.

  12. Amy Bee says:

    I was going to ask why this is news but then I remembered that the public knows absolutely nothing about Kate and she rarely speaks so any new revelation or utterance from Kate is written about. As for her International Women’s Day tweet it read as if she only respects women who take care of children and who are quiet.

    • Nic919 says:

      What we know of Kate is actually not very nice. We know she plants fake stories and never apologizes and we know she is massively jealous of her sister in law to the point where she almost assaulted her.

  13. Lucy says:

    I don’t put sugar in my tea either 🤷🏼‍♀️. Sometimes I do with milk or cream. I think the bigger deal is she looks like she doesn’t eat more than 800 calories a day.

    I remember a few years ago a podiatrist picked her feet apart in a tabloid, I’m sure it was pre Meghan. She had bunions then, she needs to take care of her feet so she doesn’t have worse problems as she ages. I am glad she was culturally appropriate where she went, the bar is that low.

    If she was out doing things three times a week, there wouldn’t be time for the weird stories to gather steam.

  14. Magdalena says:

    The hypocrisy and cynicism are off the charts with this one.

    Did Kate ever celebrate International Women’s Day before Meghan came on the scene and continued to do it as a royal, as she had always done prior to meeting Harry?

  15. YankeeDoodles says:

    Kate and William are *perfect* for each other. That’s all I got.

  16. Christine says:

    I hate feet, all feet. I don’t even want to look at my own, and I really didn’t want to see the gnarled feet of Kate Middleton. How she didn’t manage to flake on this indignity will baffle me for the rest of my life. Seriously, it’s what she’s known for, which leads me to believe her people didn’t even tell her this was happening.

    You will never convince me KP doesn’t hate her. This was actively gross.

  17. TN Democrat says:

    Much like the embiggening press she receives that she knows is manipulated by the palaces, I think she believes (or whoever approves her looks) everything she sees online and isn’t in on the joke. I stumbled across a comedy post where a woman attached a hairpiece across the length of the back of her collar, took down her ponytail and called that a blended ‘do. Her hair looked like Keens. Rather than hire stylists, she is so isolated that she is not getting appropriate styling from experts. If she hadn’t been such an active participant in bullying Meghan (and such a creepy stalker of her style), she would register as pitiful to most of us because isolation is a clear ab#se indicator. More questions should be asked about her frail appearance, creepy trad wife fashion and utter lack of style. Why doesn’t she have a stylist/dresser when royal women have ladies in waiting/staff? The royals are too highly funded for her to wander into public with a wonky wig, ugly clothes and this poorly styled. Is she, um, redistributing funds into her pocket that are allocated for her appearance/fashion or is she being deliberately isolated by Bullymont? Who chooses for her to dress and look like this?

    • Gail says:

      When I was a little girl my mother kept my straight hair in a bowl cut. On a holiday with family friends, one had a long, black braid which she took out of her hair for swimming. She helped me put it on and for one afternoon I was Elegant! (capital E elegant). My blonde hair, her black as night braid but I didn’t care, I thought long hair was glorious. Didn’t care if it didn’t match, I still felt Elegant. Maybe that’s how Kite feels. She doesn’t care how it looks, she’s like a little girl playing pretend. LOL I Still have that picture of me blonde as all get out with a black braid dangling and I can evoke the feeling when I look at it! FWIW: I add brown sugar and 2% milk to both coffee and tea. Wish I could do as Eurdice and enjoy black coffee, black tea, though I do guzzle a lot of (tap) water. It would save so many calories!!!

  18. Ameerah M says:

    I put (oat) milk in my tea – I use my frother to make a tea latte. It’s my morning drink of choice. And I add agave syrup. The only tea I can drink unsweetened is herbal tea – usually because I drink herbal teas that are fruit flavored. But I drink black tea everyday and it must be sweetened.

  19. Lady Digby says:

    Kate Mansey did a puff piece for Kate in the wake of this visit in The Times on Saturday. “Recently she has taken on MORE travel and MORE engagements. Here she was MOBBED by adoring crowds. For the first time since her illness, she SEEMED to be enjoying her job again. EG when asked to take part in Hindu dancing she said, Oh, go on then!! and accepted a curry lunch afterwards” Mansey bigs up glamour of W and K can bring to UK/US relations HOWEVER, the heavy lifting will always fall to the monarch of the day . ”
    There was a lot of shade in this article hidden behind the gushy tone describing Trump as beeming at Kate like she was a favourite child on their graduation day. Kate is a middle-aged woman so why infantilise her here?! Her headline is Could William and Kate salvage bond? Trump’s a fan and wants them BOTH to visit over the Summer?!

  20. QuiteContrary says:

    Kate’s IWD post reads, of course, like AI … it’s such bland blather. She should add some spice to her writing, but she’s inept and doesn’t care.

  21. tamsin says:

    This seemed like an appearance that went well for Kate and she was well-dressed for the event. She doesn’t seem to have her hair styled before a public appearance, like the great blow-outs she used to have. It’s the sort of bread and butter event that she should have been doing a couple times a week. High-lighting communities is part of her job. However, it’s starting to look kind of old-fashioned now, because thanks to Harry and Meghan, some impact, not just a photo-op is expected. Funny, she doesn’t keep her feet pedicured, but then, how many times is one required to remove one’s shoes. It seems her staff doesn’t do a thorough prep for her, or I’m sure she would have gotten a pedicure. Luckily she was wearing pantyhose. But the press need not have zoomed in on her feet either.

    • Magdalena says:

      She doesn’t seem to keep her hands manicured either, because they were also in a shocking state, considering how much money her husband has and how much she has spent on coat dresses and cospay shoe brands and cheap jewellery over the years.

  22. Jay says:

    I’ve seen enough Hot Ones episodes with British people to assume that Kate’s idea of “good with spices” might be different than mine, but eh, whatever she thinks makes her sound less boring.

  23. Jessa says:

    Don’t care about Kate.
    Do care about the uninformed commentary around coriander/cilantro and cream in tea…

    Coriander is the plant in the UK – seeds, leaves and all. We don’t use Cilantro as a name.
    We do not put cream in tea. Only milk. Sometimes with sugar. Sometimes without.

    Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

    • BeanieBean says:

      🙂

    • Felicity Fox says:

      I happily attended your TEd talk and appreciate the info! I’ll welcome and enjoy those any time. As an American I really appreciate knowing details of the traditions and customs of other countries. I always feel very accomplished watching films and tv with my husband and being able to explain different words and word uses —a lift, snog, bellend (🤭), being on the floor (in the US that would only be used indoors, outdoors it’s on the ground), being sat beside (as what you did on your own in the past), and so on.

      Keep the info coming! It’s good for citizens of other countries to get to know their global neighbors in ways both large and small!

  24. Nerd says:

    She is the most uninteresting person in that family and I would even say most families. The bar can’t be any lower for how uninteresting articles are about her and the boring and pointless things she does and says. This article could be used to put a child to sleep for nap time but the person reading it would fall asleep also. I would be embarrassed for the US media writing this boring crap about a woman liking spices and not wanting sugar in tea but I know that they are no different from trash UK tabloids like the Daily Fail because of who owns and edits them. I can only imagine the collective eye rolls happening reading these drivel.

    I can understand that the condition of people’s feet can depend on the shoes they wear and the activities they participate in, but there is no excuse for her not doing the bare minimum of clipping her damn toenails. Having bunions or any other issues with her feet which can’t be avoided is one thing, but not being able to at least cut her own toenails that doesn’t require going to get a pedicure or going to a podiatrist. I was going to give her grace until I saw how scary her feet actually look and the thing that looks the worst about her feet are things that she herself could have addressed on her own.

  25. Jaded says:

    Has she never heard of bunion straighteners? Those feet are nasty.

  26. Anne Maria says:

    No Brit puts cream in their tea! Black (rare), then a range of preferences ranging from a spot to a lot. And a slice of lemon instead is traditional with Earl Grey (though I use a little milk). Cream, or those horrible little plastic pots of synthetic whatever, or milk powder – never!

  27. Mina_Esq says:

    I don’t put sugar in either my tea or coffee. I’ll do milk in coffee but not tea. However, I do take my tea and coffee with a side slice of cake so…:)

  28. YankeeDoodles says:

    The problem with Kate is that there’s just nothing to say. She really is this shallow and self-involved, which is a kind of paradox. The late Queen was a totally different character, she was scrupulously professional and poker faced in public, but she was a bubbly, highly animated personality in private, by all accounts, totally direct and straightforward and bracingly void of filler talk and — as one commentator termed it — “bland blather.” Her small talk was like operating a conveyor belt, but not in an “out of my way” sense, just, let’s get on with it. Kate has no work ethic and also no professional demeanour. This is who she really is: insipidly infantilised and helpless. It’s like a lobotomy patient wandered into the world and tried on a pretty wig and twirled. The end.

    • LRB says:

      The Queen’s reputation is being badly damaged by Andrew. I have just finished reading Entitled – whenever more ‘rumours’ came out about Andrew she either put him front and centre with her on a visit or Church service, or gave him another title or honour . She had a complete blind spot when it came to Andrew and the stay behinds are struggling to recover from the fall out.

  29. Quincytoo says:

    I wonder if it was a chai that she was drinking? My Nana used to drink her black tea with no sugar or milk. I take light cream and sugar.

    Here’s Bobby’s menu. Reviews are great and everything sounds delicious

    https://eatatbobbys.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Bobbys-A3-Menu-2025-Oct-web.pdf

  30. Henny Penny says:

    It all begs the question: What does this woman do with all of her time? This seems like an honest question to me. Her husband is wealthy. She doesn’t have a job. She has a full staff dedicated to her care and the care of her home and her children. If she’s not working, and she’s not cooking or cleaning or doing the childcare, and she’s not busy getting the most basic of beauty treatments done for someone in the public eye, what the heck does this woman do all day long? None of it adds up.

  31. LRB says:

    Queen Letizia has had foot problems ( not bunions I don’t think) and now rarely if ever wears towering heels. The other royal ladies should take note – for a lot of the functions Kate attends lower heels would be far better anyway, and better for their feet. But even with bunions a good moisturiser used daily works wonders, and cut those nails!! You don’t even need a pedicure.

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