Have you heard guests leave the royal banquet hungry #elizabeth #royal — Transcript

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1. 0:00Did you know many guests leave [music] a
2. 0:01British state banquet with an empty
3. 0:03stomach? A state banquet at Buckingham
4. 0:05Palace is one of the most elaborate
5. 0:06[music] dinners in the world with a menu
6. 0:08that is served to around 170 guests. The
7. 0:11[music] reason they often leave still
8. 0:12hungry is because the monarch sets the
9. 0:14pace for the entire room. Nobody sits
10. 0:16before the monarch sits. And when the
11. 0:18[music] monarch finally finishes eating,
12. 0:20every guest is expected to stop eating.
13. 0:22Queen Elizabeth [music] was famously a
14. 0:23fast eater, which meant guests at her
15. 0:25table had to race through each course
16. 0:27before her plate was empty. knowing that
17. 0:29once it was, [music] theirs would
18. 0:30disappear, too. A former palace steward
19. 0:33described standing behind her chair and
20. 0:35pressing a button [music] the moment she
21. 0:36put down her cutlery, which lit a signal
22. 0:39for the footmen who walked in and began
23. 0:40[music] clearing. Even so, guests are
24. 0:42seated in strict order of rank, and
25. 0:44talking with the monarch often matters
26. 0:46more than eating. But the [music]
27. 0:48tradition remains and at the grandest
28. 0:49dinner table in Britain, everyone eats
29. 0:51to the rhythm of one person's appetite.