WERE RP MANGOES QUEEN MUMS FAVORITE?
Clark Field, Pampanga, April 9, 2002 (STAR) By Ding Cervantes – Was Britains Queen Mother, who will finally be laid to rest at Windsor Castle today, the most royal and prominent consumer of Philippine mangoes? “Mangoes were among her favorite fruits,” said British Andrew Langston, general manager of the Holiday Inn resort here. Langston had worked for years as personal attendant to members of the royal family, including Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana. He had stayed with them at the Buckingham Palace and traveled with them to their other palaces, such as Windsor and Balmoral, on the royal yacht Britannia or the royal aircraft. Langstons closest brush with the Queen Mother was from 1982 and 1985 when he attended to her at the Windsor and Sandringham castles. “She just loved mangoes,” Langston said. Apart from mangoes, the Queen Mother also hankered for plums and was “crazy” about macadamia nuts, said Langston ,who trained extensively in food and beverage a
