For the evening’s gala banquet, guests and the royal family will arrive at the Drabant Hall and then proceed by way of the King’s Staircase to the Velvet Room, where The Queen and the Crown Prince Couple will receive them. The Velvet Room is named after its silk wall coverings, which were designed by the palace’s architect, Thorvald Jørgensen, and hand-woven in silk velour in Lyon approximately 100 years ago. In 2015, the Velvet Room was restored, and the new wall coverings were woven at a selected Indian textile factory and transported to Denmark. The central motif of the wall coverings is the Danish coat of arms with three lions and nine hearts.

After the presentation, the guests continue into the Great Hall, where the dinner takes place. The Great Hall is the largest of The Royal Reception Rooms. The room is 40 meters long and 10 meters high with an encircling gallery. Inset in the ceiling are Kræsten Iversen’s three large paintings that symbolize the legislative, the executive and the judicial powers. The hall was originally decorated with Christian V’s tapestries from Rosenborg Castle, but in connection with The Queen’s 60th birthday in 2000, the sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard’s 17 tapestries with motifs from 1000 years of Danish history were mounted in the hall.