Windsor Castle Employees are setting up a 50-meter-lamb (164-foot long) mahogany table. The grooms are buffing horses which will pull the royal trains. And the military honor guard is drilling to ensure every step with accuracy.
About 1,000 year old palace halls and in the grounds LondonHundreds of people are working to ensure that the king Charles III The best show is possible when he welcomes US President Donald Tusrap This week for his historical second state trip.
A 200 -year -old silver served on silver is a display of a journey, Brass Band and a magnificent features of a magnificent banquet that Britain does not like anyone else. But this is a spectacle with a purpose: to enhance relationships with one of the world’s most powerful men at a time when their first policies have long been stopping trade and safety relations.
“We are butter for him,” Robert Lacey said, a royal historian and advisory on the Netflix series “The Crown”.
“He will not come to Britain if he would not have a chance to live Windsor CastlePerhaps (late) (late) pay tribute to the queen, he praises a lot, and to meet the king. ,
Soft power in action
Britain’s kings and Queens abandoned political power and settled for the role of the head of the state, Royals remain a strong means of “soft power”, which used to reward friends and give concessional concessions from reluctant colleagues.
The state tour is the last tool of the monarchy, in which the leaders of the world are designed to receive full royal treatment.
During seven decades on the throne, late queen Elizabeth II Romanian dictator Nikole hosted everyone from Sesku to South African President Nelson Mandela.
The Royals have also hosted the last four US presidents, although not all were traveling to the state on a full scale.
Hospitality with purpose
While Martin Farr, an expert in modern British history at the University of Newcastle, said, it is difficult to determine the effect of soft power that it contributes to the spirit of friendship that “another party may be more open to your entry.”
Six years ago, Britain demanded TusrapSupport due to being ready to leave the European Union. This time the UK is advocating favorable business conditions and helping to deal with Russian aggression in Ukraine.
“A new Trump Presidency, a new Prime Minister, a separate government, but the same feeling of nervousness and the same feeling is that we can pull the biggest liver with this President, can to pollute him and try to try and connect something that is really affected, which is a monarchy, which is a monarchy, and the fact that his mother was born in Scotland.”
Hence the Prime Minister Kir Stamor Trump hurried for Washington in February exactly five weeks after starting his second term, and invited him to travel to the kingdom.
This was the first time that any world leader received the honor of a second state trip, and the first invitation was given in a personal letter of the king, which Trump proudly displayed for TV cameras.
“This is a great, great honor, and who says in Windsor,” Trump said he praised the king. “This is really something.”
pomp and circumstance
There will be a lot of glitz for a President who has gilt the oval office and planned to build a white house ballroom for 650 guests.
While President and first woman Melania trump The UK will reach the UK late on Tuesday, the meat of the journey will begin the next day.
After welcoming Trump, Charles and Queen Camila Windsor will be with them on riding a vehicle through Estate, then with a route line by members of the armed forces in the palace.
Inside the cranelted walls of the palace, which was started in 1070 by William the Concorer, a military band Charles and Trump will play the role of national anthems from the two countries, which reviews the guard of honor in Scarlett tunics and long bearskin hats.
Hundreds of military personnel will participate in the celebrations – after the rehearsal of the mounted soldiers, foot guards and musicians – the rehearsal of the months.
When the rifles should be there, it will come with the same thwack. When shoes collide with the ground, they will do so. The “God Save the King” and “The Star-Spangelard banner” will be notes.
Highlighting history
After the welcoming ceremonies, Trump will look at the documents and a performance of the artwork together to highlight the shared history of Britain and the US and the palace has not said what will be included, but the options are innumerable with general legal and democratic traditions for two countries, which are spread back to Magna Carta, which have been signed in Sain in Runnams.
But the center of the journey will be the state banquet of Wednesday night, where men will donate white relationships and tail coats and women will wear designer gowns and jewelry that will shine in a flickering light from antique Candelbara.
“Tiyaras will apply,” said Hugo Vickers, a royal historian and author of “Alice,”. “It all looks great.”
Dinner for many people
The king and the queen will join their guests around the Waterloo table on a large scale, which is about half the length of a football ground and place for 160 guests. It takes five days to set the table, which will be placed with a grand service, a silver-mold dining service that includes more than 4,000 pieces, including serving dishes to dinner plates and egg cups.
Wilters said that silver and ceremonies paved the way for reconciliation, which Elizabeth believed that it was also a way to solve infallible problems.
,Kir Stamor In a way cleverly, the king was used to woo President Trump here, to give him a great time, “He said.” And (this) is a great opportunity, to talk to all the goodwill that will be on this point… and if there is no hope of sorting Ukraine, then all this is a step in the right direction. ,
Those discussions take place on Thursday, when Trump and Stamor are found in the country’s property checkers of British Prime Ministers.