Dinner at Sudeley
Dinner at Sudeley
Something for the weekend, ladies and gentlemen. There is an item in today's Gloucester Citizen, entitled dinnerdate with Lady Ashcombe concerning the dinner guests she would like to invite to Sudeley Castle. Here is the text:-
My home for the past 40 years has been Sudeley Castle, and walking in the footsteps of kings and queens has made me curious about what life would have been like for the previous occupants. So, for my ideal dinner companions, I'd choose Richard III, Katherine Parr, Thomas Seymour and Emma Dent, as well as the historian David Starkey.
I'd be seated at the head of the table, and would serve three courses leek and potato soup, steak and kidney pie, and apple pie to finish. Seated next to me would be David, a good friend of mine. He is particularly interested in the Tudor era, so I think he would have to be seated next to Katherine Parr, who was the last of Henry VIII's six wives. Katherine spent her final years at Sudeley Castle and is buried in a chapel within the grounds so I'd love to ask her what her favourite part of the castle was.
Thomas would have to be seated next to her, though I worry that fireworks would fly if he had a chat with David, as his opinion of Thomas is less than favourable. Perhaps I should seat my next guest, Richard III, in between them.
Richard owned Sudeley Castle twice in his lifetime, and since the discovery of his remains under a car park in Leicester in 2012, the debate surrounding his personality has opened again.
Seated to my right would be my final dinner companion, Emma Dent, chosen because I see some of my own story mirrored in hers. She owned Sudeley Castle in the Victorian era, and she too cared deeply for the estate and dedicated much of her energy to restoring and improving the castle.
Where would you like to hold such a dinner party? And who would be on your guest list? And what courses would you serve?
Sandra =^..^=
Re: Dinner at Sudeley
Something for the weekend, ladies and gentlemen. There is an item in today's Gloucester Citizen, entitled dinnerdate with Lady Ashcombe concerning the dinner guests she would like to invite to Sudeley Castle. Here is the text:-
My home for the past 40 years has been Sudeley Castle, and walking in the footsteps of kings and queens has made me curious about what life would have been like for the previous occupants. So, for my ideal dinner companions, I'd choose Richard III, Katherine Parr, Thomas Seymour and Emma Dent, as well as the historian David Starkey.
I'd be seated at the head of the table, and would serve three courses leek and potato soup, steak and kidney pie, and apple pie to finish. Seated next to me would be David, a good friend of mine. He is particularly interested in the Tudor era, so I think he would have to be seated next to Katherine Parr, who was the last of Henry VIII's six wives. Katherine spent her final years at Sudeley Castle and is buried in a chapel within the grounds so I'd love to ask her what her favourite part of the castle was.
Thomas would have to be seated next to her, though I worry that fireworks would fly if he had a chat with David, as his opinion of Thomas is less than favourable. Perhaps I should seat my next guest, Richard III, in between them.
Richard owned Sudeley Castle twice in his lifetime, and since the discovery of his remains under a car park in Leicester in 2012, the debate surrounding his personality has opened again.
Seated to my right would be my final dinner companion, Emma Dent, chosen because I see some of my own story mirrored in hers. She owned Sudeley Castle in the Victorian era, and she too cared deeply for the estate and dedicated much of her energy to restoring and improving the castle.
Where would you like to hold such a dinner party? And who would be on your guest list? And what courses would you serve?
Sandra =^..^=
