PALACE FEAST REVEALED: Trump Sets Up 155-Foot Table at Windsor — Dishes, Drinks, and Behind-the-Scenes Secrets Leave the Royals Stunned 😱🍾 Who would have thought that every course, from starters to desserts, carried shocking messages that left both King Charles and Princess Catherine in awe!
Windsor Castle’s State Dinner Features Lavish Menu
Just over 100 staff members served 160 guests at the white-tie event.
President Trump, center, during a state banquet at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.Credit…Pool photo by Evan Vucci
Thousands of Londoners protested President Trump’s two-day state visit in the U.K., but the grandiose spectacles carefully crafted by the British government and royal family gave the president a welcome full of the kind of pageantry he revels in.
Wednesday night’s state dinner was particularly lavish. Hosted in Windsor Castle’s St. George’s Hall, the white-tie event saw Mr. Trump and several members of his administration mingling with British royalty and business leaders alike.
On one side of the hall’s grand banquet table — 155 feet long — place settings were arranged for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, King Charles III, Mr. Trump, and Catherine, the princess of Wales. On the other side: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Queen Camilla, Melania Trump and Prince William.
Just over 100 staff members served a total of 160 guests. Among them were Prime Minister Keir Starmer; Rupert Murdoch of News Corp; Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple; and the Open AI chief executive, Sam Altman.
The menu began with a Hampshire watercress panna cotta, served with parmesan shortbread and quail egg salad. The main course was an organic Norfolk chicken ballotine wrapped in courgettes, with a thyme and savory-infused jus. For dessert, guests were to be served a vanilla ice cream bombe with Kentish raspberry sorbet interior and lightly poached Victoria plums.
Though Mr. Trump is a teetotaler, the dinner featured a lush wine list as well as a 1945 vintage port, to honor his first term as the 45th American president, and a 1912 cognac Grande Champagne, to note his mother’s birth year.
There’s also an elaborate cocktail invented for the dinner — a “Transatlantic Whisky Sour” that blended Johnnie Walker Black scotch with marmalade and was topped with a pecan foam and a toasted marshmallow on a star-shaped biscuit.