Italian Dinner at Highgrove | The Royal Watcher

King Charles III and Queen Camilla are hosting an Italian-themed Dinner at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire on the evening of February 7th, ahead of their State Visit to Italy and the Vatican in April.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla invited the Italian Ambassador to the UK and several Actors and Celebrities as they held Italian-themed Dinner at Highgrove House, ahead of their State Visit to Italy and the Vatican in April.

Queen Camilla wore her Diamond Serpent Necklace along with two of the Queen Mother’s Cartier Bracelets.

The King hailed this:

Most splendid evening which brings together two things very dear to my heart – slow food and Italy

A nation’s food culture is a priceless social and environmental asset, intimately bound up with its sense of identity and place. To say that we are looking forward to it would be to engage in a little British understatement.

Good food brings people together and what we choose to eat helps to define us – as families, communities and nations”

Inspired by the actor Stanley Tucci, and cooked by Calabrian chef Francesco Mazzei, the menu features Italian recipes with British ingredients:

Reception:

Rare and pasture salumi

Tuscan-style paté and coppa

Yorkshire pecorino cheese puffs

British vegetables caponata tartelletta

with Highgrove sparkling wine

Dinner:

Scottish crab panzanella

Westcombe ricotta and Highgrove fine herbs ravioli

Isle of Wight tomato passata

Suffolk Red porchetta

Pumpkin and sage mash, Tuscan kale

with white wine Gavi dei Gavi La Scolca Black label 2023 and red wine Barbaresco Gaja 2021

Zuppa Inglese and biscotti

with a red dessert wine, Recioto della Valpolicella Classico Zenato

It was announced that the King and Queen will undertake State Visits to the Holy See and the Republic of Italy in early April 2025.

During Their Majesties’ State visit to the Holy See, The King and Queen will join His Holiness Pope Francis in celebrating the 2025 Jubilee Year. Traditionally held once every 25 years, the Jubilee is a special year for the Catholic Church; a year of walking together as ‘Pilgrims of Hope’.

During Their Majesties’ State Visit to the Republic of Italy, The King and Queen will undertake engagements in Rome and Ravenna, celebrating the strong bilateral relationship between Italy and the United Kingdom.

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