King and Queen yours with Stanley Tucci and Beckhams to State Banquet ahead of Italy Trip – Royal News Live

The king and the queen have been with Victoria and David Beckham, Donatella Versace, lady Helen Mirren, Edward Enninful and Stanley Tucci for a black tie dinner to celebrate Italian cuisine at Highgrove.

Charles and Camilla invited Italian-American devil carry Prada actor and well-known Foodie, Tucci, and Italian ambassador to the UK, Inigo Lambertini, to the Gloucestershire property on Friday night to enjoy a party with sustainable ‘slow food’.

Other guests included Tucci’s wife Felicity Blunt – sister of actress Emily Blunt, businessman and TV personality Patrick Grant and chefs Raymond Blanc and Angela Hartnett.

The king and the queen wearing a Fiona Clare dress were seen chatting with Beckham’s and Dame Helen.

David Beckham told Camilla how much he loved their Cotswolds property and added: “It’s beautiful there, so beautiful. We love it. We are very happy there. We have chickens … ”

Camilla interacted, “I also have chickens!”

He suggested his wife not so eager for gardening but added, “I love it.”

He told the king how proud he was over his role as the king’s fundamental ambassador and thanked him for the opportunity to get involved.

Victoria Beckham admired her students’ work and said to him, “The execution and craftsmanship are phenomenal.”

The king gave a speech at dinner and said that slow food and Italy are “dear to my heart”.

He said he was “particularly happy” that dinner comes just a few weeks before the state visit to Italy and added, “To say that we look forward to it would be to participate in a small British understatement …”

But a year later Harry’s life would drastically change when he met Suits Star Markle, whom he married in 2018. Whitehall was not invited to the wedding.

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Princess Royal has told how her return to the intensive care unit, where she was treated after her horse racing, was really useful in “filling out the blanks.”

Anne met medical herds involved in her care when she visited ICU at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.

The 74-year-old princess who was about to see her chickens on her gatcombe park property when the incident happened last June has no memory of what followed but is believed to have been hit by a horse’s head or leg.

The princess said: “You have filled the topics that partly from my perspective are really useful to know what happened because I seriously have no idea, and unfortunately I have no big memories of being in here either. I just know I was really well looked after, so thank you.

William – who lost his mother in 1997 when he was just 15 years old – talked to young people about how they were dealing with grief.

The princess of Wales wants the world to focus on her campaign work and not her wardrobe as she gradually returns as a frontline Royal.

In a move that signalizes her desire to be less about her fashion choice and more about her campaign, Kensington Palace will no longer release details of her clothes during events.

A senior adviser to the Duke of York showed a “lack of common sense” as he agreed to give evidence in an alleged Chinese spy’s legal case without seeking the advice of his own lawyer, a court has been told.

During a hearing on Friday, Special Immigration Appeal Commission (SIAC) Dominic Hampshire, senior helper to Andrew, heard in contact with the intelligence services of alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo in 2022, before the decision to exclude him from the UK on National Security Safety grounds were made.

The specialist court also heard bids from several media organizations for documents that were part of the SIAC challenge, including a testimony of Mr. Hampshire.

The judges were told that Mr Hampshire had given the testimony of Mr. Yang’s legal team that it would remain confidential.

Adam Wolanski KC, for the media organizations, said that Mr. Hampshire did not seek his own legal advice on the likelihood of his evidence becoming public and describing this as “confusing”.

He continued with written submissions: “It is extraordinary that a person in Mr. to Mr. Yang. “

The king and the queen must have a state visit to Italy and the Vatican, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.

The big spring tour, which has long been drawn in the media, takes place in early April and coincides with Charles and Camilla’s 20th wedding day.

They meet Pope Francis in the Vatican and celebrate the Pilgrims of the Catholic Church of the Hope Jubilee year.

In Italy, the couple will visit Rome and the northeastern city of Ravenna, known for its early Christian mosaic works of art.

Charles, 76, is tossing forward with regular overseas trips this year as he adapts to live with cancer.

The development arose at the end of the king’s long -distance visit to Australia and Samoa, which was described as the “perfect tonic” for the monarch.

Charles and Camilla have invited Stanley Tucci to the King’s Gloucestershire property to enjoy a party with sustainable slow food tonight.

The menu is created by the acclaimed Italian chef Francesco Mazzei and inspired by Tucci who fronted the TV series Tucci – The Heart of Italy.

Created using completely British ingredients mixed with Italian culinary traditions and local flavors, the dishes aim to embody the principles of slow food.

Drinks will be prepared by Italian mixologist Alessandro Palazzi using Italian taste and herbs from Charles’s beloved Highgrove Gardens.

The Slow Food initiative was launched in 1986 in the small Italian city of BH when food author Carlo Petrini avoided the opening of a McDonald’s in Roma’s Piazza di Spagna, leading to widespread national protests.

It promotes the right to good, clean and fair food for everyone and strives to preserve traditional and regional kitchen.

Charles has long been a master of the slow food philosophy.

The Prince of Wales has recited Blue Peter’s memorable “Here’s One, which I made earlier” poor while meeting winners of his Earthshot competition at BBC Children’s Magazine Show.

The competition invited children between the ages of five and 15 to come up with an idea to help save the planet in the same way as the most important Earthshot award created by the Prince of Wales by 2020.

Five winners met the prince at Windsor Castle on the show, presenting their ideas, asked him questions about the environment and made environmentally friendly bird footers with him before he then assigned the certificates.

On the show, program manager Joel Mawhinney showed his bird feeder to the camera when it was done, but said it needed a little “touching”, which made him pray for “some royal help”.

William answered and held the bird feeder he had made: “Joel, here’s one I made earlier.”