女王請吃鹿肉 國宴播民歌 The programme finishes with pipe music

Chinese president hosted by Queen at Buckingham Palace state banquet – as it happened


Xi Jinping’s first day of engagements on his four-day visit to the UK aimed at cementing economic ties

The banquet at Buckingham Palace is reaching the end of its musical programme by now to the strains of ‘Nobody Does it Better’ (not this version).

Bond fans will of course recognise it as the theme tune from The Spy Who Loved Me, which is about the disappearance of two nuclear missile submarines.

The programme finishes with pipe music from 4th battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland and the Army School of Bagpipe Music.

We’re going to wrap up this blog now, but will leave you with this representation of the Xi visit, courtesy of Steve Bell:

女王請吃鹿肉 國宴播民歌英國王室前晚舉行國宴（路透），菜單由英國女王親自拍板定案，包括產自北海的時令海鮮鰈魚與鹿肉，及甜點黑巧克力。晚宴菜單由法文書寫，國宴上的音樂更包含披頭四的名曲《Eleanor Rigby》、007詹姆士龐德系列電影《Nobody Does it Better》，更有一系列中國民歌包括《小河淌水》等。