Windsor Castle. A Royal Year The Banquet.

over the course of a whole year we have been given exclusive access to the hidden world behind the scenes of Windsor Castle the Queen's favorite home a world of royal ceremony of pawn history and tradition but also of fun excitement and color we meet some of the 300 staff who work and live here serving mnemonic keeping her state apartments clean tending the fireplaces grooming the horses exploring its darkest corners and preparing the sumptuous banquet and we meet the member of the royal family who for over 50 years has been ranger of the Great Park the castle has stood for 1,000 years but this is the first time it's thrown its most private doors open to the world a million people from all over the world visit the Queen's castle every year the man in charge of keeping both the visitors and the residents happy is the castle superintendent major Allen Denman X Welsh Guards I lived in a lot of housing the army have always named my house after my favorite football ground and field probably obviously when we came to Windsor Castle that I couldn't believe well pop that outside the house so where it sits in there when I was living Gaza house I like to start off the day with a good walk around the castle and just make sure everything's all right picking up any problems and then hold it right one year into his new job at a castle nearly a thousand years old major Denman is still something of a new boy you know some my staff have been here sort of fairly odd years and you know a year there's nothing and you know a hundred years in the life of the castle is nothing so yeah you really feel a sense of time and occasion but the superintendent's already mastered Windsor's canine pecking order the governor also has a black Labrador and I were back lab the won awards once said to me I told all the new wardens that anyone of importance in the castle has a black Labrador of course my response to that was no anyone of importance in this place as a corgi some people spend their entire working life at the castle and at Wilkins started here in 1974 she's now the Queen's housekeeper I think first and foremost it's a home and whose home it is that's most important to all of us the Queen the sovereign and we're responsible for the whole of the castle within the castle State Apartments private suites guest suites some offices and staff areas directly above the housekeeper's corridor is the Grand corridor it runs along the private wing in a corner of the 13 acre castle here lie the private quarters of the Queen and her family a present we're preparing for the cream coming back on Friday furniture is in the center because we're putting traffic wax on the floorboards the Queen will come back here for most weekends of the year wherever her travels have taken her I will have a team on the corridor Friday morning to mop the floor and do top dusting I will have the same team on Saturday morning Sunday morning and Monday morning 6:15 in the morning quietly it's a bit like looking after your own home but on this massive massive scale we have a very good done what word should I have boss who would see everything nothing is faith Toby's in her second year as a housemaid at Windsor Castle was brought up in a very traditional British home in South Africa and Her Majesty was always at our dinner table we had a portrait hanging on the wall and my mum was a great lover of the royal family and her majesty and from a tiny little girl eyes dream about serving the Queen one day and Here I am through more than 40 reigns Windsor Castle has been remodeled and extended many times but no monarch no war has had as much impact as a single light bulb one morning in 1992 a builder's lamp placed too close to a curtain sparked an inferno which swept through the grandest sections of the castle it took 16 hours to quell the flames apart from the Queen no one knows Windsor better than Prince Philip he's lived here for more than 50 years it was he who took overall charge of the great restoration the family keeper charged souvenir in pride of place everyone all fun reminder of it because it finished it stopped here at the end of this room the fire that's new and that's old and it didn't and it came to about here but the whole place had to be redecorating anyway at the time of the fire these rooms had been stripped for maintenance work the point was that of course there was nothing in here at the time of the fire the whole of the all furnitures are all pictures and curtains and carpets and everything was out so we were able to put it all back again the disaster is commemorated in the family's private chapel it was entirely rebuilt with a new stained glass window designed by the prince himself well there was at the bottom a bit far since throw the living firefighters and then there was a purse local ten inch of trees and then show the castle since we emerging in the sunlight and that Sir Michael was there but he lost his arms as I did leading the way was and he looked a little uncomfortable at my arms Windsor was reborn more stately than before with its treasures back in place the castle is once again both a home and a seat of State if Windsor is home Buckingham Palace is the royal office here the royal household team have just started planning the grandest royal occasion of the year a special banquet for the French president Jacques Chirac the evening is to celebrate a hundred years of the on Todd Collier the enduring bond of friendship between Britain and France it's to be held in November at Windsor this is the guest list which has been approved by everyone the master and and decree and the private secretaries this one is for the Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife he's one of our regulars I probably let him drive longer so it smudged them and I pile them up unsealed and then we have someone else check them and have to be checked twice before weighing up this is no ordinary state banquet the Queen has approved a revolutionary plan LEM is around the West End musical will be performed at the castle the master of the household Vice Admiral Sir Tom Blackburn is responsible for all royal hospitality he is pondering one of the trickiest aspects of the banquet the seating plan the table is set out for the expected number of guests for the dinner the queen is giving for president she rack in Windsor about 140 and that's how this table is is set out and what I'm trying to do now is to make sure that the the seating provides the best possible mix for 140 guests that are there and as a matter of trial and error and to help us we color code the different sort of people categories of people's over perhaps see here that the ones the clearly marked in blue are the official French suite when the Queen came to the throne all state banquets were held at Buckingham Palace but then a certain prince resurrected an Edwardian idea Mike guests not prefer to dine at Windsor Castle I initiated that idea there's absolute else Paige was just ye gods how we going to organize it to him what are we gonna do about the hustle camera where's the guard obama going to be and how we get about percent whereas the procession going to go where we go that it's so easy if you do the same thing every time you know precisely what's going to happen at back in palace but you suddenly move it somewhere else you got to rethink everything i mean i think everybody enjoyed it but it was a sort of he guards or now water these days the Windsor star for old hands at state occasions they start planning six months in advance we'll be coming in through that door and being every branch of the wall household will be involved no banquet can take place without the footman and under Butler's who will greet and serve the guests they're known as G or general branch some will be drawn from other duties in London some will have come out of retirement the castle fender Smith's usually maintain all winds as fireplaces but for the upcoming visit they will also work as liveried footmen well delivery as we call it is a black tell coat as you can see a waistcoat and black tie really and that's what our livery is made up of and black shoes and dark socks we've tried to tend away from white socks not not a good combination the food team are known as F branch in charge our Andrew Ferguson and Mark Flanagan they've just had the banquet menu approved by the Queen they're confident that it will impress even the French this is the many of the Queen is sent back to us which is the first time the mark seen is in the first course that the fitted to Seoul Grand Duke well that's just going to be the Pope's for this to Seoul with their crayfish served separately tornado Bertha champignon servoz which is a small piece of beef with wild mushrooms and foie gras on top pudding again the Queen the Queen indicated a preference mark had suggested a prune tart with Armagnac or creme brulee with a compote of oranges and the Queen decided that she'd just like the creme brulee as it is it's a good balance yeah like to be sitting down so what I Annette Wilkins housekeeping platoon are known as H branch their skills go far beyond cleaning whenever the Queen has anyone to stay the guests can expect service seldom found anywhere else what's happened the ladies arrived and her cases be enough by the foreman and what's going to happen now is my team my husky means assistance will start unpacking in advance of the shear axe visit Annette is conducting a refresher course in the fine art of unpacking a lady's suit case using locked up luggage so got very selection of clothes here and personal items which we always take care of faith and Jill of housekeeping sisters they're taking notes of what items are in the case what items are in the hanging bags because then everything is put back when we repack and it's not confusing for the guests everything's unpacked and if there are plastic hangers they've put on cupboard hangers we change them no they are a guest because our guests say a Queen's yes and that's what we do this is the makeup ladies jewelry got a gold necklace and a string of pearls and a string of pearls thank you so the guest has now gone for breakfast and she's due to leave straight after breakfast so the timings are three quarters of an hour to repack which is faith is going to do starting from now the tissue paper protects the clothes and also hold have in place once the suitcase is packed and it does work with the tissue paper and the way we layer it looks tidy looks neat freak water now we've already been I would say 15 minutes so we need to speed up a little now we close up the puzzle fine that's it shut up housekeeping assistant has to see the guests to run a bath we lay the bath towel out bath mat it's everything is done to make the most comfortable so when they leave us they say what a wonderful wonderful place and how well they were looked after at least we hope the craftsman of sea branch will be responsible for all the antique chairs sofas and tables required for a state occasion but for now they have smaller though equally important pieces to look after what we've got here is furniture from the Dukes study this little sofa table the wood is calamander which is part of the ebony family and this isn't the Duke study under his library on this bookcase there here most weekends and we tend to go up during the week prior to them coming back on a Friday to make sure everything is as it should be because as you can appreciate it's a hole as well as a castle another head of department is also preparing for the presidential visit lady Roberts the royal librarian is curator of Windsor's priceless collection of manuscripts and drawings she's assembling a special altar called Yale exhibition the Queen has asked us to put out some things which will be of relevance to France in the crimson drawing-room where it will be seen by the Queen and the president and also by the other guests on that evening what I have to judge is how much we're trying to stress the relaxed nature of the visit and how much we're trying to stress the more formal nature of it this is one that I think we definitely want me Philippe being led by Queen Victoria into sin George's Hall with this magnificent display of gold and silver plate I think we want these women swapping around the team must pick a handful of pieces from the library's 300 thousand books drawings and prints the material that we gather together for these displays is nearly all kept stored and accessible to visiting scholars and researchers here at Windsor it's always an interesting challenge to provide a display for visiting foreign leaders there are certainly some countries where we would find it quite difficult to give such deep and rich historical coverage but we've always got something there are now just two days until the anti cordial celebrations at Windsor the transformation of the castle is well underway with the public cleared from some George's Hall the craftsman of C branch can now prepare the most important feature of any banquet the grand table well we use a Reviver usually vinegar and water to take all the dust off the table without scratching the surface and generally just put a bit of a shine back into it you we measure this at every stage but at the end of the day you've just got a lock down the edge to make sure it's straight Eddy Mills gives 150 year old table its final polish scrupulously going over every last month after 27 years general branches Steve Marshall is a veteran of banquets at all the Royal Holmes bases Buckingham Palace and then we travel around from there that will be here for us what we whole show yeah we just travel up and down his expert I can soon tell if there's enough table for 136 guests not far away that's the 18 inches between each thing I think or bigger if you want Steve don't put a little Matt you got a loser yeah only two we're gonna put to our fleeting 1h okay yeah I'm should be fun I've got a middle right this is a state occasion not a private one so the cost will be met from the Civil List the funds the Queen receives to cover her duties as head of state for windsors long experience of state occasions it's never had to squeeze a West End production in to lay miserable does not travel light and that could be a problem for tons of stage equipment are being piled into the Waterloo chamber except that's not what it's called anymore for one night only it has been diplomatic ly renamed the music room production manager Jared Donaldson is transforming this grandest of stage rooms into a theater carefully lighting and sewing they're going to be hanging off this truss which hangs from the the ceiling and a chandelier points in the ceiling and tomorrow the stage comes in sits underneath it and we've got some backdrop to hang up as well the Waterloo chamber is not just losing its name for a night also going as some of the generals who helped Wellington defeat the French in 1815 it is for their own safety though rather than for any diplomacy that these old soldiers must come down from their noble perches yeah handy big canvas like this way of taking them over balconies it's always worried the seats of Lawrence is coming down um there are they're considered too vulnerable in the position where they are to leave them there we thought about covering them up but it seems easier though it doesn't look easier to actually take them completely away once 2/3 up enormous care must be taken when dropping national heroes over 20-foot balconies well some pictures go down others go up in the crimson drawing-room lady Roberts's new exhibition for tomorrow's guests is going into place it must be perfect from every angle because we're putting the display up in this wonderful room where there are mirrors behind the display the back of the display has to look at least respectable and this is double-sided sticky tape which Rini and I are preparing and it's a team effort this because you have to get the attention right we don't normally do this sort of work kneeling on the floor the crimson drawing la casa su batalla could help you for major Allen Denman this is the greatest challenge he's faced since arriving at Windsor people gotta be fed gently luscious to come in yeoman the guard staircase party due to that kitchen to sort out and as your mixer is on duty so know what happened for now the 17th century Queens drawing-room must double up as a warehouse these allowances which have been taken down you can see who we got here and every member the name well this Pope Pius which is obviously the most famous one and of course I think we haven't got here it sounds crazy massive castle you know his room seemed Rod Stewart happening Mason do you think about it so please major Denman's crime concern however is what the theater cruel are getting up to I news gonna be big with in Lhasa yes big you how many people actually still in that stage with it with the orchestra 25 piece Orchestra I think bhakti one in the cast kind of you select any one of those Michael Ball yeah mice feared of him no okay lots of lots of X cast members of Lima it's a look-alike famous famous ones so no I have had a Michael Ball I'm joking but there's one subject at Windsor which nobody jokes about so we've got extinguishers in the back we've got a group of extinguishers in in the front ground we got both foam and co2 closure and so we're covering all the risks the 1992 fire was started by a spotlight and Jerry's got a hundred and fifty of them I think because of the fire they obviously don't get a little bit twitchy here about what we're doing because I think there's a little bit bigger than the health and safety guy who I spoke to earlier on expecting but reassuring them that we actually do know what we're doing doing so I can understand it's quite a big sort of lump of steel we're hanging in there very nice hole here gentlemen so yeah but it does it doesn't look quite overpowering doesn't it it's quite big for mark Flanagan and his team the countdown has started in the kitchen having the food loving French to dinner adds extra pressure but the Queen's chef has chosen impeccably British ingredients okay well this is the V Philip for tomorrow's menu it's Scottish Aberdeen we went up and saw them earlier on in the year and so that they very kindly trimmed it all up for us so all I need to now do is cut it into the portion sauce now master of all the queen's kitchens marks Korea has taken him far but not that far he began just down the road I started out off at College in Slough I was under 18 so the course cost me 50 pence to be he's worked in some of Britain's best-known restaurants but there is no room for celebrity chef egos here it's not about what the chef wants to cook you know it's not it's not cooked per se to the way the chef would like to cook it it's cooked for a majesty WordPress it's a perk we're offering a personal service British beef it may be but the wines will be French as is the man in charge of them Robert large the yeoman of the sellers we have the the champagne to the toast which is going to be polo G then we follow with the ashes and wash a limousine which is going to be for the first course Chason marche is the king of the Burgundy region the second course anything with beef we choosen the Chateau leo real prefer a 1990 a very good Krug 1982 for the pudding which is a magnum this time we try to actually get more Krug 82 just in case and he wasn't possible to get any in the country okay so that's how rare they are at the end of a long day the drama has already begun in the Waterloo chamber the set is run a little bit of a little bit of a disaster earlier on but we unfolded the back cloth the first time and went to hang it up being specially printed however liver mush printed the wrong way around the logos should be in the centre and the paintings should be on the outside so a bit of a bit of a major sway or and what I found out but I've managed to get another one tomorrow but I have to say in somebody up to Manchester to pick it up as soon as they finish we're here so we'll get this one down get the new well get all stretch and looking lovely so it's going well apart from that it's 12 hours before the banquet and in the kitchens the Royal chefs are hard at work on tonight's vegetables one by one everything must be perfect long before the guests appear the Queen returns from Buckingham Palace this afternoon at 5:00 p.m. our meticulous pre banquet inspection will begin we're using the green drawing-room and evening for pre-dinner drinks also the crimson drawing-room which I need now to just move a little bit more furniture to making space as there is 136 guests we need plenty of room in the room so I'll move this sofa and then there's plenty of room also so they can see the display which rock collection to put out I'm in connection with the French visit and it just gives them a bit more room makes it a little bit more spacious we're used to doing these now and hopefully it should run like clockwork and which it normally does I'm just you know just hope everybody turns up on time and everybody's got a drink and if they've all got a drink and everything dinner and they're all happy that I'm happy know where our preparations more scrupulous than in the private quarters where the most important guests will stay even the soap will have been personally approved by the Queen for President Chirac and his wife it will be the principal guest apartment known simply as suite 240 kings queens statesmen including Ronald Reagan and Nelson Mandela have slept here the occupants will have to dressing rooms separate bathrooms for president and Madame Chirac in addition to a large sitting room a footman and the lady's maid and a bedroom with one of Britain's finest views the Long Walk orderly chaos has ensued in the chamber formerly known as Waterloo the Queen will be particularly interested to see what has happened to one of her favorite staterooms but the show's producers led by Sir Cameron Mackintosh have only just arrived for a her sauce everybody's turned out now so everybody's got an opinion about it you know we're a bit late but we actuarial orchestra didn't turn up we're supposed to be Seton York so now it's a little bit late Gerry has a scrap of good news Ivana's left Manchester with the cloth that left about quarter past 11 there's no half past so it should be neat about past 3 hopefully it's been officially off so we can get that home that's my major worry and just generally the place they love like it's midday and the press have a chance to interview the stars so Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to be staging a revolutionary French musical in this royal setting I have set I did immediately think of the irony of the evening that this show of all shows would be taking place in this particular Hall under the eyes of Wellington who was it that chose Lane is as the the most suitable musical to present I said I suppose it in the spirit of the on Tom Cordiale it's going to offend everybody what I just want to do is just go through them what we're gonna do in the groups where they're going to stand major denman is keen to lay down the running order that's the one thing you want to talk about tweet the Queen walks in regarding Queen sits down show starts show starts okay all right so we just need a signal to when to place our cast on stage right okay well yeah he saw that yeah so what women uh yeah we're seeking solutions constantly seeking solutions which we always find tonight this cast will be performing twice they must complete their usual West End show before speeding back to the castle it's going to be a demanding night ah Oh 2:00 p.m. the queen is now on her way Tony Martin is the castle flagmen it's his job to raise the royal standard the moment the Queen is inside the ramparts he prepares to make his silent fanfare I'm just going to step as it's like ready pretty much to coming in to possibly help us to and this will stay up until the service is finished one of the largest flags it's 24 feet by 12 very large Friday Tony checks the Queens progress with the police at the castle gates it's not changed again does it I was told r2 I was told by my my boss it the Queen was a coming approximately half past two but now I've just formed up never been form it up sir it's quite a past three now so we just have to wait okay until she arrives say it's going down and coming back up again the grand table is nearly ready for inspection by the Queen and all nine hundred and fifty two pieces of cutlery and 816 glasses will be washed up by dawn glasses toasting glass of champagne white wine with the first course red wine with a beef champagne with a sweet halt I am as simply measuring up using a rule of thumb so the knives and forks north country in the plate exactly the same edge away from the table this evening I will be a footman and I'll be remaining in the room with the guests and I will be doing various services from putting the hot plates in front of the guests seven vegetables gin sources the essence is that that guests really would never have to ask for anything at the table so a crew it is always within reach without having to stretch across anybody and each individual guests will get a little dish with their own butter so that again nobody has to trouble anybody else in feeling so they're embarrassed to ask for the butter because it's halfway across the dream from the top of the round tower there's still no sign of the Queen it's nearly a gale-force coming up excited terrain please stop too bad the fender Smiths have just a few minutes left to line up all 136 chairs before the Queen begins her pre banquet rounds as we have the official length full stick from back of chair to the table which I believe is about 27 inches I think it's just enough area for people to it once we put the chairs together it gives the people to come in and put the champagne anything but just to walk in and the guests enough room to stand in front when they're ready for their their dinner so this is much better as there is easy yeah we're hoping to get this in at the Olympics in London the sticking chair we reckon it'll be a winner myself and mr. Turner might be just too old but I'm sure we can try and up to whippersnappers to do stick and chair it's not that bad what you think you tell me I'll walk gone then if you go down just where you are now walk in one two worlds me one this way just tap it in slightly not ain't that bad to be honest yeah that's good milk and you'll get Jim minutes okay right today two minutes action stations across Windsor the message goes out the boss is back for Queen and country in the nick of time the new lay Missouri of the backdrop has arrived I'm just pleased is here that's all I can see it's always alright on Indian home was all right in here in the cellars it's time to draw the corks on the chateau Leoville quad frere I'll banquet yourself myself or I will be looking after the service number nine which is the city civil majesty and president chirac i would be quite pleased to actually speak French to prisoners Iraq because I hardly speak French Here I am percent sure that mr. she liked to be very up user section of one state occasions can be a little nerve-wracking castle guests might require a little extra fortification in their rooms okay we got the dry sherry here she's lying not sherry and we got some whiskey Famous Grouse whiskey is the fairest the favorite whiskey for the Duke of Edinburgh and we got golden gin so these 3d campus is going to go into the suite of president chirac some people may say it's a minibar for us we call it the sweet six months of planning diplomacy and hard work are coming to a climax now is the moment when everyone will know if they've got it right no one has attended more Royal banquets than the Queen her say is fine so write it here on YouTube says it's kind of something virtually the table has passed the Queen's attention now turns to the set of lemons Arab she's keen to ensure that everyone can see properly that's okay for the heist you can see over the orchestra coming yes the orchestra right in the background it's an orchestra playing behind even after all these years Her Majesty is still impressed the Queen even makes plans for the flowers which by tradition go to local charities there's no people saying here is a launch where one of Queen Elizabeth so amazed is it Barbara brown yeah sure would really try that it is really like who and there is the Thames fairly hostile I'm not struck father too late yes Archer I was doing this interesting his ass just a legenda suggestion now that the Queen has approved the arrangements all departments get their final briefings we just wanna have a quick run through and make sure that everybody knows the dishes and the procedure that we're going to follow the gate this is going to turn into you know a conveyor belt for the one for better term this is a small idea of what it's going to be you've got to imagine that this is only one side of the oval this is the finished dish half of the finished dish okay and we'll have the same procedure again percentage of it pre-built entrees ready to come to this lineup okay don't forget we have about a minute a minute and a half for each flat and we have to push okay okay thank you very much it's a three-course meal which is slightly different from what we have a banquet it's a fish course a main course a suite the red light that means once you've got the plates and your food and if you can all stand behind your service point where you're serving in a line and then once I'm happy once I'm happy then I will switch to the green light or then everybody will serve together thank you very much the pre-drinks our champagne and soft drinks only plus the drinks for the members of all families service number six mr. famous special request you have Princess Royal who's Ivan freshly squeezed orange juice only freshly squeezed orange juice nothing else after the banquet mr. rude and mr. Ford he kills had done from the garthe's room see girls will be mr. class / mr. Smith said Olin okay to everyone okay thank you seven-thirty at last the guests begin to arrive the royal family and the sheer acts will be joined by the Blair's leading French and British politicians and a selection of prominent French experts but all is not well at the castle gates revolutionary fervor is stirring outside as well as in that's the protesters it's ad gets more like football maximum state occasions appear the presence of the Prime Minister several cabinet ministers and the world's media has drawn hundreds of pro hunt supporters to Windsor the eggs are flying and some VIPs are being delayed in the castle kitchens the Queen chef Mark Flanagan is unaware of the chaos outside he's sticking to the agreed timetable to be here sorry sure yeah you need to be here ready for me yet we listen we're 15 minutes away from starting there our assembly line and and and for us the main event is for this their post is we're now where it's it's the Nervii time now for a further hitch a deeply apologetic president has been delayed by 30 minutes the Duke of Edinburgh reassures the sheer acts that all as well in sum George's Hall Steve Marshall puts the final touches to the table in his customary Footwear acquired on a plane they appreciate my selves yeah Andrew Ferguson must nollie a is between the kitchens the serving staff and the Queen it would be wrong if I wasn't a bit nervous it's just making sure that we can combine the requirements of mark to make it look as wonderful as possible with a requires the Queen to have it in front of her when she wants it in front of it basically so it's it's a fine line and as you know chefs never once send their food until the last possible second because the longer it stays in the hot cupboard that the less appetizing it looks a March March pulling from one end and you know we're pulling from the other and I'm the guy that sort of keeping that and everything it hope it's going to work outside the mob haven't managed to storm the gates but they are still holding up the traffic delays upstairs no delays downstairs news of the evenings holdups still hasn't reached the kitchens let's go come on more so according to Marx precise schedule the guests should now be seated and listening to speeches except they aren't they're only just making their way through to dinner many more so let's go let's go 8:15 and right on time marks hit his deadline the first course is on its way to the banquet unfortunately not everyone is so punctual muscle just came in and said we were running 10 to 15 minutes behind schedule which is slightly unfortunate as marks got everything ready to go on time so we'll just have to go with it it also understand person came in late so it has some knock-on effect when a server slightly there we've cooked it and it's ready to go so one hopes just as a sporty much so 20 minutes like what a laugh plays does make you feel a little bit disappointed that the fish is not going to be as as perfect as I wanted it the Kreutz going to go a little soggy but the guests are finally taking their places you can come along yes mrs. blur helps the Prime Minister find his seat he's placed between the French Minister of Defense Michele Ali Omari and the fashion designer Nicole fine president chirac sits between the Queen and a professor of French from Nottingham University is the president recognized in transtastic and I'm pleased to have opportunity to welcome mark has reworked his timings the second course will not go the way of the first you've got plenty of time now slow down and make it perfect yet there's not enough enough there's not enough in there I asked him to rise and read a text president of people of France John you need to make sure I don't nope no holes in the servicer that's gone to see them you can't serve that de votre majeste little pre the president thanks his hoses I mean that soccer fan says see they've laid good noon deliveries on the balance will God stand down ed Sullivan opposite under there with the toasts over it's finally time to eat the lights are switched to green great hope he dishes up getting it in and as quickly as possible moving this flight delays it's been it's been that for a little bit it's been ready for a little bit too long maybe the first course is on the table andrew is back in the kitchen to oversee the beef I'm the creepers happy to be slightly better cuz we try men she has one that is and we've identities very good at identifying which is normally for her she's really partly on the top so that means that she knows exactly which one's for her she's very happy for everybody else to have has their meat done perhaps slightly rare oh but she has so prefers it to be well done so well we do that Marty nice and hot keep the door closed yeah the main course is served even now every vegetable is still being scrutinized today let's retake the Lucilla let's give it to every sign name take it quick and get back here back again today marvelous only pudding remains done now come to anymore just the guests finished their dinner quite unaware that a further delay has afflicted the other end of their evening one set of revolutionaries has held up another the cast of lemmy's árbol is still in costume from their first performance of the evening have been delayed our route from the West End are you happy yes your movie only 10 minutes late yeah I know we'll soon as everybody able to straight up in the state apartments the evening is progressing seamlessly with the formal presentation of gifts the Queen gives the president a silver plate engraved with words on top called young in return she receives a serovars and a scarf from madam sure as the guests make their way through to the newly christened music room everyone agrees that marks dinner has been superb it was the food cook was friends she said no really was in it I congratulated her it was really good I mean you know I've been living in England now for quite a while so I can cope with the English cuisine very very well and I think you do have so and the cookies excellent so Cameron Mackintosh is guessing follow me please Michael Ball undergoes last-minute adjustments to his makeup cookies we can please folks thank you quick as you can okay thanks very much lady Jett so I'll go thank you this show is not starting without the real leading lady Oh yeah this is what five six months worth of planning at least going into this nice to see I don't have any children other than my boys are just this is like having a baby for me Who am I I'm Joe and soda man you see that meant bears no more guilt state banquets always demand the highest standards whoever the guests tonight the staff have risen to the occasion I work well the evidence all came together and anybody little mistakes that were there you know we're seen on the night a century of friendship between Britain and France has been marked with a banquet fit for a queen just gotta check out here there's no rip to me look at this this is England this is fantastic you couldn't buy this a millionaire we as a staff must never forget that she is the queen on a hot day such as car today the middle of June you can be very very uncomfortable you

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Length: 55min 15sec (3315 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 03 2013