Royal staff had spent five days preparing the table with the Grand Service—a silver-gilt collection dating back to 1811—along with seasonal flowers gathered from Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and The Savill Garden.
A Dinner Fit for Royalty
Guests enjoyed dishes such as hot smoked trout and langoustine tartlets, Windsor partridge wrapped in puff pastry, and baked Alaska with blackberry and raspberry ice cream. Wines included a 1995 Château La Fleur-Pétrus, chosen to mark the year the German President and First Lady married. A cherry brandy and chocolate cocktail, inspired by Black Forest Gateau, rounded out the evening.
King Charles’ Speech
In his address, King Charles said: “It seems only yesterday that we paid our State Visit to Germany in 2023, the first one since my Accession… That makes the pleasure all the greater that we can welcome you here at Windsor as our guests, a mark of a very special friendship that binds our two nations.”