You may have noticed a subtle shift in how your more refined peers are entertaining this season. While you are still relying on a luxury candle to set the mood, tastemakers like Anna Wintour and Martha Stewart are elevating their soirées by simply hosting King Charles and Queen Camilla. Consider, for a moment, how woefully inadequate your current guest list has become.
The aesthetic shift, most visibly cemented at the recent King’s Trust Gala in New York, represents a generational realignment away from casual intimacy and toward the casual importation of hereditary heads of state. Megan, 34, of Brooklyn, recently admitted her dinner parties felt entirely incomplete without a seventy-five-year-old sovereign in a tailored tuxedo to anchor the room. You might feel a similar twinge of inadequacy looking at your own weekend plans, which are likely devoid of anyone possessing a working moat.
A reigning monarch grounds your event space in a way that an artisanal sourdough loaf simply cannot, demanding both absolute deference and a highly specific fork placement.
This autumn, take a hard look at your hosting habits. If you cannot secure the Supreme Governor of the Church of England for a modest Thursday evening gathering, you must ask yourself what you are even doing with your life. Send a tasteful, heavy-stock invitation to Buckingham Palace immediately, or at the very least, stop pretending your current friends are enough.