Kensington Palace ‘D-Day menu’

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day, The Orangery restaurant at Kensington Palace and the New Armouries restaurant at HM Tower of London will feature, for one year only beginning June 2004, special World War II menus. The wartime menus, using limited amounts of ingredients as in times of rationing, will be available alongside the more modern menus.

The 2-course War Time Lunch Menu costs £11.50 (near $21) and the 3-course, £14.50 ($26.50), comprising lettuce, parsley and potato soup; salad of chicken, broad beans, cucumber and lettuce with a mustard-and-tarragon vinaigrette; potato salad with eggless mayonnaise; treacle tart, and a glass of rhubarb wine.

The War Time Afternoon Tea Menu costs £10.95 or, without wine, £8.50 and consists of cucumber-and-watercress sandwich; rock cake and plum jam; carrot cake, and a glass of rhubarb wine.

Also, opening at Kensington Palace in June is the exhibition “Queen, Couture and Country: Behind the Royal Wardrobe.”

To book advance tickets to Kensington Palace, call (+011 44) 870 751 5180. For recorded info on visiting the palace, call (+011 44) 870 751 5170 or visit www.hrp.org.uk.