Dinner at Badminton House

[LouisFerdinand]

Queen Mary would spend the duration of the Second World War in Gloucestershire at Badminton House. Dinner at Badminton House was at 8:30 every night.   
In a note of wartime austerity, Queen Mary had requested that in place of a fresh table linen oilcloth be substituted.   
Queen Mary had her own silver napkin ring with the crown and her monogram engraved on it.

[Curryong]

^ Badminton House belonged to the Duke of Beaufort, husband of Queen Mary's niece the Duchess. She went to Gloucestershire with a full retinue of people, many of them elderly, and more or less swamped the existing household.

I don't think she meant to do this, it was just she wanted her own Household with her, including Ladies in Waiting. Apparently the Duchess remarked years later that their lives weren't really their own until they got their house back late in the war. Queen Mary spent a lot of time at Badminton energetically sawing wood for kindling in the grounds!