King Charles and Queen Camilla are tucking into an extravagent eight-course banquet in Nairobi tonight as they mark the first day of their state visit to Kenya.
The menu includes everything from soup to fish and also features a stunning dessert platter.
Pictures showed staff preparing for the banquet, with elaborately decorated tables and a host of tableware – including three different wine glasses and five sets of cutlery.
Camilla wore a striking a blue Anna Valentine tunic top with palazzo trousers, with a diamond elephant bracelet and a Van Cleef & Arpels necklace that belonged to her grandmother for the banquet while Charles wore a black suit with a grey tie.
The menu for the 350 guests at the banquet tonight features eight different courses, though the top table chose to make a slight tweak to the original menu – switching out beef for chicken.
Eight-course banquet dinner menu:
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Beetroot and goat cheese foam with hazelnut crumble
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Cream of roasted butternut, chestnut and truffle soup
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Malindi lobster and seared seafood ravioli flavoured bisque
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Watercress and stilton salad with candied apples and walnuts
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Palate cleanser: lemon and raspberry sorbet
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Pan-seared salmon with Champagne beurre blanc
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Beef Wellington, chateau potatoes and minted asparagus (chicken Wellington for the high table)
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Dessert symphony: A visually stunning dessert platter with miniature portions of Kenyan and British inspired honey cake, carrot and walnut square, earl grey tea crumble and sarova chocolate cake
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Petit fours and coffee (including chocolate truffles and macaroons, with Kenyan coffee or tea)
