Charles charges a King's ransom for 18th century dining experience at his Scottish mansion Dumfries House

It is simply a play successful past erstwhile Britain was the wealthiest federation successful the world, Jane Austen was astatine the tallness of her literate prowess and the state was a pulverization keg of governmental and civilian unrest.

Now, radical keen to get a sensation – rather virtually – of beingness successful the 18th period are being fixed the accidental to devour similar Royalty astatine the King’s Scottish heap – each for the princely sum of £375.

Extravagant meals are being served successful the mansion’s Pink Dining Room, which is said to beryllium a favourite of King Charles and features a Pink Murano Chandelier that dates backmost to 1760 arsenic its centrepiece.

The country – with its airy rosy hue – is the champion preserved successful the property, which was saved for the federation successful 2007 by a consortium led by Charles arsenic the Prince of Wales.

The King is said to beryllium a peculiar instrumentality of the pink-tinted rococo plasterwork connected the walls and ceiling, inspired by the Roman ruins of Palmyra successful Syria, and eats determination erstwhile helium stays astatine the mansion.

Guests volition beryllium welcomed to each lavish bash by a bagpiper earlier enjoying a drinks reception and past a guided circuit of the location earlier dinner.

The event, which Dumfries House said are its ‘most exclusive to date’, volition spot dishes paired with good wines by London-based Corney & Barrow – which was the archetypal drinks institution to beryllium awarded a Royal Warrant by King Charles.

The candlelit dinners volition instrumentality spot exclusively connected Saturday 15 and Saturday 22 March, with lone 16 places disposable for each sitting.

Menus volition beryllium based connected 18th period dishes, specified arsenic poached salmon, food soup, and manchet breadstuff for starters, followed by roasted venison and beef, parmentier potatoes and a juniper sauce, and citrus and pistachio syllabub, breadstuff and food pudding, and pome and almond trifle for dessert.

Evan Samson, who leads the beforehand of location squad astatine Dumfries House, said: ‘Since The King’s Foundation opened Dumfries House to the nationalist successful 2008, we person strived to connection visitors an penetration into the past of the estate, its occupants and the House’s collection.

‘Our 18th Century Dinner is our astir exclusive lawsuit to date, and volition beryllium authentic to the 1700s, with accepted butler work – including the repast being served ‘family-style’ – and a paper researched and prepared by our world-class chefs that reflects the culinary fashions emblematic of state houses successful that age.’

Proceeds from commercialized enactment connected the property – including tours of Dumfries House, weddings, and events specified arsenic the 18th period eating evenings each enactment the enactment of The King’s Foundation, which provides applicable acquisition courses for implicit 15,000 students each year.

The lives of the affluent and mediocre successful 18th period Britain were vastly different.

The Industrial Revolution, which started successful the mediate of the century, saw the accomplishment of caller machinery that saved clip and made galore landowners precise wealthy.

However, arsenic the affluent got richer the mediocre saw beingness go progressively harder with galore radical retired of enactment arsenic machines made them mostly redundant.

The 18th period was a tumultuous 1 – particularly successful Scotland arsenic a effect of the bloody Jacobite uprisings.

Highly romanticised successful stories and songs, the uprisings, successful reality, were a overmuch bleaker affair, marked by galore battles betwixt 1689 and 1745.

The Jacobites were supporters of the exiled Stuart dynasty, who aimed to overthrow the ruling House of Hanover and reconstruct the Stuart kings to the British throne.

Prince Charles Edward Stuart was the grandson of the deposed Catholic King James VII of Scotland and II of England. 

Also known arsenic 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', helium and his followers believed the throne of Great Britain rightfully belonged to the House of Stuart, and led the Jacobite Risings of 1745, to overthrow King George II.

However, their efforts failed, yet starring to the tragic Battle of Culloden.

Meanwhile, culinary trends and beingness successful the second portion of the 18th period was memorably explored successful the sixth and last occurrence of BBC humanities amusement The Supersizers Go – starring Giles Coren and Sue Perkins.

The episode, which aired successful 2008, was dedicated to the Regency play and saw the brace unrecorded beingness arsenic if they were a brace of well-off siblings.

Coren jokingly took connected the relation of a tiny landowner with an inheritance of astir £50,000 and Perkins his unmarried sister.

With cook Rosemary Shrager cooking for them astatine a British state manor house, the hosts enjoyed the afloat trappings of the landed gentry.

During their acquisition they ate a boar’s caput and salmon poached successful Champagne and explored the origins of the sandwich portion gambling astatine gaming tables oregon the era.

Discussing her acquisition arsenic an 18th period woman, Perkins antecedently said: 'In the earlier programmes, I'd been overseeing the kitchen, but abruptly I recovered myself with perfectly thing to bash but hold for a husband.

'Giles Coren kept going out, and I was near astatine location to devour grilled cheese.'