The royal family’s social media accounts share a behind-the-scenes clip showing the finishing touches of dishes served at the lavish state banquet for South Korea’s president and first lady

Buckingham Palace’s kitchens painstakingly crafted floral arrangements – modeled on South Korea’s national flower – which were presented tonight at the country’s glitzy state banquet for the country’s President and First Lady.

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The stylishly shot video shows how the petals, made from what looks like sugar modeling paste, are initially rolled out.

Grooves and impressions are then expertly created to make them appear realistically floral, and the models are then formed into a less structured and more natural-looking shape.

Then the yellow stamens emerged – decorated with a golden powder – around which the petals were formed.

The video showed the finishing touches being put on the beautiful works, which were then placed on gold plates alongside delicious looking petit fours.

Meanwhile, the king has begun to put his own stamp on the royal tableware used for state banquets.

Charles’s CIIIR code has been added to the delicate glasses (six in each setting) and side plates of the 1953 coronation set, replacing the late queen’s EIIR code.

But with 171 guests dining with the King and Queen in honor of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in the grand Buckingham Palace Ballroom on Tuesday evening, the herculean task of removing the original markings and re-etching or embossing remains to be done. completed.

The glasses on the upper part of the horseshoe-shaped table – where the King, Queen, Prince and Princess of Wales, the President and First Lady Kim Keon Hee sat – showed the renewed glasses, but the rest of the glassware still needs to be replaced. placed. renamed in honor of the king’s reign.

Most of the white porcelain side plates – edged in gold – featured the king’s new gold code in the center, but the remaining 17 – at the two ends of the horseshoe – still bore the late queen’s EIIR at the top.

The royal family’s X account shared a behind-the-scenes clip showing the process of crafting the Hibiscus Syriacus models, which are made from sugar and will be presented alongside petit fours

The stylishly shot video shows how the petals, made from what looks like sugar modeling paste, are initially rolled out

The video showed the finishing touches being put on the beautiful works, which were then placed on gold plates alongside delicious looking petit fours

Guests including K-pop stars Blackpink – made up of band members Jenni Kim, Jisoo Kim, Lisa Manobal and Rose Park – and Birmingham City footballer Cho So-hyun dined on a menu of warm soft poached egg tart and spinach puree, Windsor pheasant breast with croquette of celeriac and calvados sauce and salad, with a mango ice cream bomb for dessert.

The King and Queen continued the late Queen’s tradition of personally inspecting the table on Tuesday afternoon to ensure everything was in order.

Palace’s in-house florists created displays of vibrant purple, red and pink flowers and foliage from Windsor Home Park and the Orchid Garden in the Windsor greenhouses.

After the banquet, the flowers will be donated to Floral Angels, a charity of which Camilla is a patron, based at the New Covent Garden Flower Market. The flowers are then delivered to hospices, retirement homes and shelters.

Also on the table were pieces from George IV’s silver-gilt Grand Service, consisting of more than 4,000 items.

A general view of the very lavish state banquet being held at Buckingham Palace this evening

Queen Camilla, King Charles III, President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee at the state banquet at Buckingham Palace, London

The Princess of Wales was effortlessly elegant as she and her husband attended the state banquet