Buckingham Palace Exhibition Highlights Hospitality, Knighthood

July 30, 2015

According to the Crown Chronicles:

Buckingham Palace begins its Summer Opening once more…

This year’s exhibition…entitled ‘A Royal Welcome’…runs 25th July – 27th September 2015.

The Ballroom will be set up for a State Banquet, with the table dressed to impress. Silver-gilt centrepieces and candelabra from the magnificent Grand Service in the Royal Collection will feature, as well as 2,000 pieces of cutlery, and for 170 place settings.

The knighting stool and a knighting sword used to confer knighthoods will go on display, too; around 25 investitures take place each year, mostly at Buckingham Palace, by a senior member of the Royal Family.

To read the entire article in the Crown Chronicles, please click here.

The Telegraph has some spectacular pictures of this exhibit.

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