King and Queen at dinner with the Beckhams, Donatella Versace and Helen Mirren
The menu has been created by renowned Italian chef Francesco Mazzei and inspired by Tucci, who fronted the TV series Tucci – The Heart Of Italy.
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The King and Queen have been joined by Victoria and David Beckham, Donatella Versace, Dame Helen Mirren, Edward Enninful and Stanley Tucci for a black tie dinner to celebrate Italian cuisine at Highgrove.
Charles and Camilla invited Italian-American Devil Wears Prada actor and well-known foodie, Tucci, and the Italian ambassador to the UK, Inigo Lambertini, to the Gloucestershire estate on Friday night to enjoy a feast of sustainable Slow Food.
Other guests included Victoria and David Beckham, fashion designer Donatella Versace, actress Dame Helen Mirren, Tucci’s wife Felicity Blunt – sister of Emily Blunt, former British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful and businessman and TV personality Patrick Grant.
David and Victoria Beckham at the dinner (Ben Birchall/PA)
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The Queen, who was wearing a Fiona Clare dress, was seen chatting to the Beckhams and Dame Helen, while the King spoke to Tucci.
The menu was created by renowned Italian chef Francesco Mazzei and inspired by Tucci, who fronted the TV series Tucci – The Heart Of Italy.
Mr Mazzei told how he had travelled across the UK to source ingredients for the meal.
On the reception menu was rare and pasture salumi, Tuscan style pate and coppa, Yorkshire pecorino cheese puffs and British vegetables caponata tartelletta.
The dinner menu included Scottish crab panzanella, Westcombe ricotta and Highgrove fine herbs ravioli, Isle of Wight tomato passata, Suffolk red porchetta, pumpkin and sage mash, Tuscan kale and zuppa inglese and biscotti.
The King greets Stanley Tucci (Finnbarr Webster/PA)
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Mr Mazzei said: “This is my first time cooking for the King. I’m quite excited about that.
“It is an Italian menu with British produce, well 99% as the extra virgin olive oil is Italian.”
He said: “I was in Devon two weeks ago to get the salumi. I went to see the pigs where the belly comes from.
“The tomatoes for the passata are from the Isle of Wight.
“The cob nuts for the biscotti are from Kent.
Donatella Versace attended the dinner, which promoted the Slow Food and Slow Fashion initiatives (Finnbarr Webster/PA)
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“I am really happy to be able to create this menu. If they enjoy it – I don’t know – but I tried my best.
“I made a report of where I had been, so it is all there and documented. I sent this to the royal chef and said ‘make sure the King sees this’.”
Created using British ingredients blended with Italian culinary traditions and local flavours, the dishes aimed to embody the principles of Slow Food.
James Bond-inspired martinis were prepared by Italian mixologist Alessandro Palazzi using flavours of Italy and herbs from Charles’s beloved Highgrove Gardens.
The dinner hoped to embody the principles of Slow Food with an Italian menu created with British produce (Finnbarr Webster/PA)
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Mr Palazzi said his recipe for the event was a half measure Sacred English vermouth from Highgate with one part Polish vodka and three parts Gordon’s gin.
He said: “The martini is shaken very well and has to be served cold.”
The Slow Food initiative was launched in 1986 in the small Italian town of Bra when food writer Carlo Petrini took exception to the opening of a McDonald’s in Rome’s Piazza di Spagna, leading to widespread national protests.
It promotes the right to good, clean and fair food for all, and strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine.
Charles has long been a champion of the Slow Food philosophy.
The event was also set to promote Slow Fashion, with the King and Queen meeting King’s Foundation’s students and being shown garments demonstrating their sustainable fashion and heritage skills.
The Slow Fashion movement encourages people to buy fewer, higher-quality items that last longer.
Designer Patrick Grant attends the dinner hosted by the King and Queen (Finnbarr Webster/PA)
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Meanwhile, Buckingham Palace has confirmed that the King and Queen are to pay state visits to Italy and the Vatican.
The major spring tour, which has long been trailed in the media, will take place in early April and coincides with Charles and Camilla’s 20th wedding anniversary.
They will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican and celebrate the Catholic Church’s Pilgrims of Hope jubilee year.
In Italy, the couple will visit Rome and the north-eastern city of Ravenna, known for its early Christian mosaic artwork.
Charles, 76, is forging ahead with regular overseas trips this year as he adapts to living with cancer.
The development emerged at the end of the King’s long-haul visit to Australia and Samoa, which was described as the “perfect tonic” for the monarch.
The tour announcement comes the week after Charles travelled to Poland for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Hollywood star Stanley Tucci attended the dinner at Highgrove (Finnbarr Webster/PA)
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The couple will attend the Holy See, the government of the Roman Catholic Church, which is located in the Vatican – the smallest independent state in the world, which is surrounded by Rome and is the residence of the spiritual leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.
The King is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
The role dates back to Henry VIII, who named himself Supreme Head of the Church of England after he was excommunicated by the Pope and broke from the Catholic Church in the 16th century to marry Anne Boleyn.
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