A state dinner staged in the sovereign’s home castle, most grandly in St George’s Hall. The Oman banquet of October 20, 2026 seated 160 guests beneath the hall’s heraldic ceiling — and entered banquet folklore for the gentlest of reasons: a yellow cape, a chair leg and a princess who sailed on regardless, entirely and elegantly oblivious.
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