Joining the Queen and her family in the royal enclosure will be the rich and famous from around the world. Transporting them to the festival in style will be 400 helicopters and a thousand limousines.
To feed everyone during the event, organizers have ordered 11,000 pounds of salmon, 5,000 Angus steaks and 5,300 pounds of beef sirloin, 7,000 rumps of English lamb, 3,500 fresh lobsters and 8,000 Cornish crabs.
And, of course, there will be afternoon tea.
The royal meeting will serve 240,000 hand-crafted cakes, 120,000 buttermilk scones, 80,000 cups of tea, 60,000 finger sandwiches, 7,000 punnets of mixed berries and 2,650 pounds of Cornish clotted cream.
But, let’s not forget about the racing.
The world’s best race horses have come from countries as far away as Australia and the U.S.
The competition will likely be dominated, however, by horses from Ireland’s Coolmore racing empire and the Godolphin operation of Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Hopefully, it’s only the horses that will be battling it out. Royal Ascot has tightened security following recent incidents of fights breaking out among spectators at race courses across the U.K. It’s an image that the British horse-racing authority will want to eradicate.
Royalty, pageantry and top class racing should do the trick.
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