A state banquet at Buckingham Palace.

Bankiet w pałacu Buckingham to dopiero przedsięwzięcie! 170 gości, setki sztućców i kieliszków, 4 tysiące porcelanowych naczyń, które można myć tylko ręcznie.. Nad przygotowaniem całego przedsięwzięcia pracuje grupa 76 osób przez 10 dni.

Entertaining at Buckingham Palace is never going to be a simple affair.

Each and every state banquet (and the Queen has already hosted 110 of them) takes ten days to prepare for and requires 1,700 pieces of mismatched baroque, Rocco and neo-classic cutlery to be placed at each of the 170 table settings precisely 46 cm apart.

Crockery is taken from King George IV’s 4,000 piece Grand Service (which takes a team of eight three weeks to unpack and repack) and 1,104 glasses - six for each guest to contain water, champagne for the toast, red wine, white wine, champagne or sweet wine and port - must be laid on the pristine 175-foot dining table.

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