The event starts with a Dîner Amical in the wonderful Crypt of St. Etheldreda’s. Friday trips will include one on the River Thames to visit Tower Bridge and walk across the top with its glass floor, followed by lunch at the Dickens Inn in St Katherine Dock.
Another will be a tour of Buckingham Palace, recently open to the public, there to see amongst others, the Throne Room and the State Dining Room, also to see many superb paintings collected over hundreds of years.
That evening dinner will be at the fabulous Fishmongers Hall. The Fishmongers’ Company is one of the oldest and most ancient Livery Companies of the City of London – one of the ‘Great Twelve,’ for 700 years it has stood on the banks of the River Thames playing a leading role in upholding the standards in the trading of fish and shellfish.
On Saturday morning the Induction Ceremony will take place in St Clement Danes, the Royal Air Force church in the Strand. Also that morning will be a private guided tour of the renovated Battersea Power Station followed by a Champagne tasting and snack lunch at Searcy’s Champagne Bar. This iconic building at its peak, was supplying a fifth of London’s electricity. After decades of sitting derelict, it is now open to the public as one of London’s most exciting and innovative new destinations. There will be an opportunity to take Lift 109 to the top of one of the Chimneys!
On Saturday afternoon seeomething quintessentially English, a private guided tour of the superb Wallace Collection and Champagne afternoon tea in the Atrium of Hertford House. Our Gala dinner will take place in the Ballroom of the Intercontinental Hotel at Hyde Park Corner overlooking the Park.
The event closes with something again at a great height – lunch at Harvey Nichols restaurant at the top of the OXO Tower on the South Bank overlooking the River Thames and a view of the City of London.
