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What's on the menu? Because at these state banquets, usually it's a sort of a nod to the French side, a nod to the British side
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Would it be a full-on French menu? What do you expect? Well, coincidentally, Emily, the menu is always written in French
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But regardless of what foreign head of state is visiting the king for a state banquet, it's always written in French
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It's been that way for hundreds of years. but in terms of the cuisine it tends to be a mixture of the two that tends to be
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kind of the thing it tends to be parts of british cuisine which are perhaps organic or
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grown in the high grove gardens or grown in the windsor gardens and uh excuse me and um and uh
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of course we will find those details out a little bit later on stay as soon as we have those details
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I'll bring that straight to you. But, of course, it is going to be a magnificent feast
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And, of course, the wine pairings as well is going to be
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There's a massive cellar in Windsor Castle. And I think I've told you before, Tom and Emily, it's one of the oldest working kitchens in the country
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hundreds of years old. Dates back to before the time of Henry VIII, but I'm sure the ovens have been a little bit updated
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We're just getting some spectacular pictures here of the king and the president of France on their horse-drawn carriage
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we're seeing, of course, I think there's Prince... Oh, no, there is..
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There's the ladies. There's Camilla and Bridget Macron both there together in a carriage
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And behind them, I expect, well, we're seeing lots and lots of
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cavalry there. I should say that joining us... How interesting that they split the men and the women
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I imagine that's got to be a traditional way of doing things, but a very interesting
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thing to note. Unless it was a request from the wives. Let's not get into the
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conspiracy theories yet. But especially after that perhaps slight choice appearance of
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the macrons on board that plane a couple of weeks ago, but perhaps it's not
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the moment to go into that. That was dramatic. And they're the prince and princess of Wales
