The scene was set with two thrones, ten suits of armour and forty-five heraldic pennants…
Whilst 75 tables were decorated with medieval fruit and flower arrangements and over 800 candles…
Which (with over 3.5km of electrical cabling) helped light a 275 square metre marquee…
Where a banquet and 6,000 canapés were washed down with over 3000 raised glasses…
As guests were entertained by an 8-piece band, buglers, a court jester, Henry VIII himself and one of his many wives…
Until the small hours of the morning…