The Princess of Wales stunned royal watchers and style followers together with her tiara alternative for this night’s state dinner. Under, the Princess as she arrived at Buckingham Palace with the Prince of Wales.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester as they arrived.
The Royal Assortment Belief shared a video displaying a number of the preps concerned in a state dinner.
Tonight, The King and Queen will host a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace as a part of the State Go to for The President of the Republic of Korea. Discover out extra concerning the historical past of State Banquets: https://t.co/yhCVdFCozK pic.twitter.com/O2NWG7vXKJ
— Royal Assortment Belief (@RCT) November 21, 2023
The Telegraph reviews, “The flowers included ferns dug up and repotted repeatedly underneath the King’s quest for sustainability.”
And right here you see the King and Queen giving the preparations a closing look late this afternoon.
One closing glimpse forward of tonight… ✨
오늘 밤 만찬을 앞두고… ✨
🇬🇧🇰🇷 This night, The King and Queen are internet hosting a State Banquet for the President and First Woman of the Republic of Korea at Buckingham Palace. pic.twitter.com/Ig0KqfWlEl
— The Royal Household (@RoyalFamily) November 21, 2023
The dinner honored South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Woman Kim Keon Hee. Right here, you see them with the King and Queen.
Extra concerning the dinner from this BBC piece.
These are opulent events, with diplomacy fuelled by positive eating, utilizing a nineteenth Century dinner service with greater than 4,000 items.
The desk settings are as exact and symmetrical because the army parade that greeted the president – every visitor getting a spot setting of 46cms.
Every visitor had a nameplate on their place, which in all probability acquired smuggled out in just a few pockets later as souvenirs, even with the Archbishop of Canterbury within the room.
The President and King as they walked to the Buckingham Palace Ballroom, the place the dinner was held. It’s the largest of the state rooms on the palace.
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The First Woman and Queen.
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The Prince of Wales and a visitor I don’t acknowledge.
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The Princess of Wales with South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister Choo Kyung-ho.
The Duchess of Edinburgh and South Korea’s Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor Cho Taeyong.Embed from Getty Photos
On this picture, you see Princess Anne with Bang Moon-kyu, South Korea’s Minister of Commerce, Trade and Power. Her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, is on the far proper within the picture.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
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Also attending tonight’s dinner were members of the extremely popular South Korean band Blackpink.
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The Times has more in Valentine Low’s story.
In what is undoubtedly a K-pop first for a white-tie palace dinner, the 171 guests also included all four members of the Korean pop group Blackpink, said to be the biggest girl group in the world. Cho So-hyun, who plays for the South Korean women’s football team and Birmingham City, was also a guest.
Town and Country reports in this piece, “Blackpink is believed to have traveled to the UK specially to attend the state banquet. In July, they made history as the first Korean band to headline a major UK festival when they played at the BST Hyde Park festival.”
Below, a wide shot after guests were seated.
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We return to the Times of London article.
The banquet did, however, include telling clues about the transition of reign. The glasses on the top table had been re-engraved with Charles’s cypher CIIIR, while other guests had glasses with the late Queen’s EIIR.
Most — but not all — of the side plates, which were from the 1953 coronation set, had also been updated.
The Princess, President, King, and Queen standing as national anthems were played.
As always, there were speeches at the dinner. (You can read the full text of the King’s speech here.)
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More from this People article.
King Charles began his address with a welcome in Korean, which was met with applause, and praised the relationship that South Korea and Great Britain share, further commending South Korea’s strides in sustainability — a longtime cause close to heart for sovereign — and BLACKPINK’s impact.
“It is especially inspiring to see Korea’s younger generation embrace the cause,” King Charles said. “I applaud Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé, better known collectively as BLACKPINK, for their role in bringing the message of environmental sustainability to a global audience as Ambassadors for the U.K.’s Presidency of COP 26, and later as advocates for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.”
More from The Court Jeweller’s coverage.
…including the late Queen’s Burmese Ruby Tiara and the Crown Ruby Necklace from Queen Victoria’s Heirlooms of the Crown collection. She also added ruby and diamond clip earrings from her own jewelry box—the ones previously worn in 2015, I think, with the lower section removed—plus a diamond bracelet.
Lauren at The Court Jeweller also notes, “…the Burmese Ruby Tiara is a rare piece that Queen Elizabeth II commissioned herself.
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The Duchess of Edinburgh was in the Susannah London gown she wore for the coronation in May, her aquamarine tiara, an aquamarine pendant, and diamond earrings.
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The Princess Royal was also in white this evening, wearing her Diamond Festoon tiara and necklace.
The Princess was in a customized gown from Jenny Packham’s spring/summer 24 resort collection, with thanks to Katie and Laura for his or her speedy ID work. The Princess’s gown is most just like the Anemone robe ($4834) seen under left, however I included the Dreamland ($3820) on the appropriate so you possibly can see how the gold embellishment seemed in opposition to the ivory material.
The ground-length robe incorporates a slim silhouette, slash neckline, a fitted bodice with a full skirt, hid again zipper, and extensive cape-effect sleeves. The piece additionally has structured shoulders with shoulder pads. The sleeves are solely ‘cape-effect,’ and no cape absolutely covers the again, as you possibly can see on this pink model of the Anemone ($4834). All the off-the-rack robes are described as being product of stretch crepe, and I’d guess the Princess’s gown is as properly.
The robe worn tonight (proven within the heart picture) doesn’t have the extent of embellishment seen on the off-the-rack attire. It lacks the beading and bigger sequins used on the Anemone and Dreamland; the sample itself appears to be like totally different.
Extra on the embroidery from Bethan Holt’s column for The Telegraph.
…delicate floral embroidery which can have been chosen particularly to tie in with the Strathmore Rose tiara. It may be seen as a tribute to the South Korean nationwide flower, the mugunghwa or South Korean hibiscus which can be known as the Korean rose.
The largest information about tonight’s ensemble, by far, was the Strathmore Rose Tiara. It has not been worn for practically 100 years.
We be taught extra from The Courtroom Jeweller.
The Strathmore Rose Tiara turned a royal jewel in April 1923, when it was given to Woman Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon by her father, the Earl of Strathmore, to have fun her marriage to the Duke of York. Acquired from Catchpole & Williams, the vintage nineteenth-century tiara was described as “a diamond bandeau of 5 roses, with diamond sprays between, forming separate brooches.”
The Queen Mom wore the tiara every now and then when she was Duchess of York. She positioned it low throughout her brow, in stylish Twenties style, and likewise later wore it atop her head on a second, extra conventional tiara body. However the Strathmore Rose was largely consigned to a spot within the vaults when she turned Queen Consort. Most just lately, the tiara was photographed for Sir Hugh Roberts’s e book on royal diamonds, revealed in 2012 to coincide with Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee.
A more in-depth look.
And this from Vogue’s story.
Upon the Queen Mom’s demise in 2002, her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, inherited the tiara. But it stayed within the royal vault for many years—reportedly, it hasn’t been worn by a royal lady because the Nineteen Thirties. Rumors arose that maybe it was too broken or too fragile to be worn once more. Now, nonetheless, the uncommon diamond diadem has been given a brand new life by the Princess of Wales.
The tiara was a shock as a result of the Princess primarily wears the Lover’s Knot, and she or he sometimes wears the Lotus Flower.
We return to The Telegraph piece by Bethan Holt for added ideas on the Princess’s jewellery.
The royal jewelry assortment is now underneath the management of the King so it’s going to have been his choice to permit Catherine to put on this almost-forgotten piece of royal jewelry historical past. It’s a touching gesture given the shut relationship which the King loved together with his grandmother and the fondness with which he’s spoken of his daughter-in-law. Earlier this month, he referred to her as ‘beloved’ throughout a speech in Kenya.
Lauren at The Courtroom Jeweller provides an attention-grabbing principle.
Kate has usually indicated via jewels and images that she’d prefer to emulate the identical sort of supporting royal position because the late Queen Mum, and using this tiara is only one extra signal that she’s aiming to be like a modern-day model of the beloved QEQM. In any case, the Strathmore Rose is the third tiara from the Queen Mom’s assortment that Kate has worn, after the Cartier Halo Tiara and the Lotus Flower Tiara.
We additionally noticed the late Queen’s Diamond Body Earrings.
The Princess wore her Queen Elizabeth II Royal Order, in addition to her Royal Victorian Order sash, star, and cross. The Princess carried an Anya Hindmarch clutch I don’t recall seeing earlier than. It appears to be like just like the Pearls Maud Clutch (£395, about $495 at in the present day’s alternate charges), so-called due to the pearl closure. It could be a bespoke model, because it appears to be like darker than the ivory shade proven on this product picture, though that would simply be lighting.
In case you missed in the present day’s earlier put up overlaying the official welcome, you possibly can learn it right here.
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Sky Information provides protection of each the King’s and the President’s speeches.