Dinner at Sudeley

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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 =^..^=

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I've rambled on a bit about my own imagined dinner, so I've posted it at http://murreyandblue.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/
Just another bit of fun, and definitely not to be taken seriously.
Sandra
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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 =^..^=