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4/29/2026, 12:36:17 AM
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All right, the waiting continues.
King Charles and Queen Camila arriving at the White House for a lavish black tie state dinner.
Take a look at this.
Foreign dignitaries.
They're being honored.
The grand event is going to wrap up the royal couple's Washington DC visit before they head to New York.
So, to tell us more about these White House state dinners, I keep wanting to look at this video as they're all arriving is our first lady expert, Jennifer Pickkins.
Hi, Jennifer.
We're seeing them arrive right now.
But first, some background.
You are the author of entertaining at the White House.
Decades of presidential tradition.
So, let's talk about this event right now.
They are arriving all of these preparations.
It's a big evening.
>> It's a big evening and I'm just in awe.
I'm smiling, Juliet, getting to see these pictures live with you and these beautiful gowns.
Um they really are just such iconic dresses to give a little bit of um history about you know obviously the first lady's gown and inauguration is so important and ends up in our national museum but first lady Betty Ford since she did not have an inauguration as I'm looking at these images I'm reminded that the dress she wore for Queen Elizabeth during her state visit is the one that's on display.
First Lady Nancy Reagan when she hosted um then Prince Charles at the White House actually rewear one of her inaugural gowns.
So, it's so exciting to see these dresses.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
I'm being told it's Christian Dior.
So, you know, as we're watching this royal visit, you can't help but see what they're wearing and how they're behaving and all of the pomp and circumstance.
And you've seen it all.
You know what goes on behind the scenes.
Talk about the preparations.
And I can only imagine the cooks in the kitchen right now saying the royals have arrived.
>> Exactly.
It is a um I have said this before, but my mentor and first lady Jackie Kennedy's social secretary Tish Baldridge referred to a state visit is a fullscale military engagement.
And she's not exaggerating.
Weeks and months of preparation will go into this with um the state department, the office of protocol, everyone is, you know, piling over books, making sure that every single flower, food, morsel sound is perfect.
The military band's been practicing.
The gardens have been gone over multiple times and the White House probably even has some fresh paint on it.
>> Do Okay, this is really, you know, inside info, but they're both, you know, they're both wearing a shade of pink.
Do you think that the ladies are Do you think that they kind of touched base a little bit or their their designers did?
How does that all work?
No, I obviously I don't know about this evening, but I cannot imagine that they did not um sh their offices did not share that information and it is just beautiful and so complimentary of each other.
>> Yeah, you better coordinate, right? >> Yes, >> exactly.
>> Can you talk about the menu specifically?
They must say, and do you have any allergies and are you, you know, do you have any food adversions?
um what goes into planning the menu and the seating and just the whole um you know the the night in general as it unfolds.
Some of my favorite things about a state visit and some of the traditions that have evolved over the year are well for starters the menu card.
One thing I love that Mrs. Trump is one of her signatures is always to have a little bit of a hand detail on those menus.
So I have a feeling once we get to see that there might calligraphers might have added a touch.
I know the dinner I um attended, she incorporated some art at the top the calligraphers put that came actually from the White House walls that it was inspired.
So, I bet there's a flower or something to go along with the theme.
A lot of people don't realize, but start searching tonight on Instagram and social media.
People that attend will actually take their menu cards and pass them around the table and guests oftentimes will sign each other's menu cards as part of the momento.
Oftent times, um couples will not be seated together.
That was something um a lot of first ladies prefer.
Sometimes I know Mrs. Trump has kept couples at the same table but not exactly next to each other.
Oftentimes we placed across the room from each other.
I bet too at an evening like this you're going to strategically have somebody from the American side at a table from the administration probably at each one to sort of help talk about what they want to achieve this evening.
>> Brilliant.
I can't imagine that King Charles and Queen Camila aren't going to have just an amazing night.
They can't have bad reviews after what's been laid out there, right?
>> Oh, absolutely not.
And the last time they had a fabulous state visit like this was during the Laura Bush administration.
And I loved her social secretary Lee Berman said it was like watching a newlywed couple because they'd only been married a few months before >> as part of their honeymoon exiting the White House.
And I do think that um the royal family does have we use that term special of relationship, but it really cannot be overused.
They have such a wonderful relationship with our first families and it's fun and all the fun
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