Show Great Royal Roal Feasts Feasts' Once Marked Yule A modern Christmas dinner is a amere amere amere mere snack compared to the royal Yule banquets of Kings and Queens in history For one of Edward Ills Ill's Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas feasts 2000 oxen were pre pre- pared The guests ate as much as they could and the vast leftovers were distributed to anyone who to come along Edward was the first English king to employ employ employ em em- ploy French cooks for a Christmas feast Wh When n Henry III spent Christmas of 1241 at Gloucester he ordered the sheriff to buy 20 large salmon to put into pies for the Christmas dinner Richard II feasted people at a banquet in 1399 He i kept more than 1000 cooks each of whom specialized in one kind of food |