This print shows the glittering effect created by the Grand Service in candlelight at Windsor Castle. The image was published in the Illustrated London News following a State Banquet in 1903. Some 70 years later, Sir Roy Strong attended a banquet at Buckingham Palace and described a very similar atmosphere: 'Vast chandeliers lit the room but what was quite extraordinary were the three great buffets with displays of plate done in a manner Louis XIV would have recognised. Behind each ascended boards upholstered in deep crimson velvet, which were studded with huge pieces of gold plate and baroque wall sconces…The impact on entering can only be described as dazzling.'