SC - hand-washing and serving high table

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

In a message dated 2/25/00 5:38:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
campcook at uswestmail.net writes:

<< I had the experience of the Queen removing herself from the high
 table as we presented the third remove of a feast. >>

I also had this experience involving the serving of a boars head with flames 
shooting from its mouth. Although I felt sorry for the young man that had 
volunteered to cook this dish (he is 18 and, IMO, did a masterful work) that 
the Queen had not been there to see it, the rest of the hall and the 
remaining gentles at high table were appropriately amused. The Queen had 
taken ill by her busy schedule and left the hall. The young gentle gussied up 
in his finest livery delivered the head to high table and set it down in 
front of the only vegetarian sitting there who duly made appreciative 
gestures and sounds. I am still amused by this spectacle and am very proud of 
the gentle tat pulled it off so innocently. :-)

Ras