Everyone at Carlo’s on Saturday night?

If you weren’t invited, don’t take it badly: neither Lady Pamela Hicks it will be.
The 94-year-old noblewoman is one of only two living bridesmaids at Elizabeth’s wedding in 1947. But that wasn’t enough: a friendly phone call from Buckingham Palace informed her that at the Coronation of Charles III, on May 6, ( but it will be three days of events of all kinds) “only” 2,000 people are invited, and she is not among them. She didn’t get angry: “The king is very kind to warn that meritocracy is better than aristocracy,” he said wittily.. To understand the sensational cut, the queen’s guests in 1953 were 8,000. Here is our mini-guide for those who will go to London or watch from home, perhaps preparing the Coronation Quiche (here the recipe: spinach, broad beans, cheese and tarragon) that the king revealed from his site royal.uk or sipping tea – he loves Darjeeling with honey and milk – with themed biscuits, like the fairy-tale ones from Biscuiteers (5). With two stores, in Belgravia and Notting Hill, this iced cookie paradise offers flags, crowns, carriages and even horses, the scepter and King Charles with crown, all in gingerbread, also in picnic hamper format (also online: biscuiteers. com). The only problem is that they are so beautiful that eating them won’t be easy.

Even the dress code of Operation Golden Globe, the code name of the event, is unpublished: «Come in a jacket, like in the office», Carlo advised the guests under the table (photo 2, at Balmoral with William and Harry in 1997. 3, married Camilla in 2005). So nothing coronet, the velvet crowns that the Lords also use to hide sandwiches and drinks (yes!) in view of long ceremonies. But for C-Day London is preparing much more than a sandwich on the head. The top address to be on the safe side is a hotel: The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park (1 And 4), always frequented by the Windsors, who throughout the month with the theme A Very Royal Occasion offers every sort of Carlopedia possible, from baskets with organic products such as Highgrovethe residence of King and Queen consort Camilla in the Cotswolds, to maps to find her favorite tailors (one for all: Gieves & Hawkeson Savile Row, of course).

In this hotel with a red brick facade and turrets, occupied by the most luxury suites, The Crown effect is guaranteed: there will be Charles’ favorite dishes, five o’clock tea, patriotic drinks, and more, every day at 10.30 the Royal Cavalry, or the Royal Horse Guards, known as «The Blue», passes from here directly to the changing of the guard, right in front of you. Triumph of the Crown. There is only one question to never ask anyone that day: “Where is Meghan Markle?”.

The Duchess of Sussex obviously won’t be there, and Prince Harry seems to be staying for a while, so as not to completely miss the birthday of his firstborn Archie, born on May 6th. But even if it will be a quick appearance, every look of him will be scanned by the tabloids, mainly to try to imagine if he has made peace with his brother William. Or at least if the two, at least in front of hundreds of millions of global viewers expected, on Corona Day they will finally talk to each other.

It is useless to try to guess the dress that Kate Middleton will choose. The Princess of Wales, and all the other women of the Crown, keep the secret until the last minute and their stylists are tight-lipped by contract. But royal observers bet on a coat dress, those coat-dresses that look good on her (perhaps only to her, the padded effect is just around the corner).

And considering that Carlo has appealed to frugality and a “low-cost” ceremony, and his former butler Grand Harrold has escalated that “It will be a massive change”, she might as well not wear a crown at all, but fall back on a hat with flowers , or even nothing in the head (but this seems unlikely to us, we’ll see…). All the others won’t go wrong choosing the national colors: red, white or blue. Something tells us Kate could go white, to stand out, like a queen.