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King Charles has enlisted help from Stanley Tucci to design a menu for a party at Highgrove House next year, it has been reported.
According to The Telegraph, the 76-year-old has personally requested Stanley’s involvement in a private dinner to celebrate Anglo-Italian relations.
The 64-year-old, who met the monarch at a Prince’s Trust event last May, told the publication that he was designing the menu for the party – which is set to take place in 2025.
He confirmed that the event would be “commuting of our two cultures” – although adding one major confession.
Stanley added: “Now, okay, I won’t actually be in the kitchen cooking for him. But the Italian ambassador came to me and said, ‘I want to do a meal, and Charles would like you to participate,’ so I’ve been coming up with the menu.”
As reported by PEOPLE, the menu will include roast pork, squash and kale – as well as “all of that nice, wintry, heavier stuff.”
Stanley also added that the meal would “showcase all of this incredible British produce.”
Speaking of the King’s decision to eating seasonally – before it was trendy to do so – he added, “[King] Charles was into that way before anyone else. He was way ahead of his time.”
As for the theme of the event at Highgrove, with the food being cooked by Calabrian chef Francesco Mazzei, it is reportedly set to be “slow food and fashion”.
Although he is an actor, Stanley has become known through his love of food, regularly sharing recipes via his Instagram account.
He also saw the release of his own show, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, in which he went from Milan to Venice on the hunt for local delicacies.
This news comes as it is reported that the King and Queen Camilla are set to visit Italy.