| Description | Menu book for dinners and luncheons for William IV and Queen Adelaide, principally at Windsor Castle, occasionally at Kew, Ascot Races, Virginia Water [Windsor], Apsley House [London], Sion House [Syon Park], Bushy [Windsor Great Park], St George's Hall [Windsor]
Volume includes dinners for the Duchess of Cambridge [Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel], the Board of the Green Cloth, and the Ladies of the house.
Most of the dinners also include other members of the royal family: George Augustus FitzClarence, 1st Earl Munster; Sophia Sidney, Baroness de L'Isle and Dudley, Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll; Amelia Cary, Viscountess Falkland, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburg. A list of the people attending dinner is often provided.
Volume provides details of dinners served to members of the King and Queen's Household (principally in St James's and occasionally at Cumberland Lodge).
There are accounts of meat and fish consumed, game received and its provenance.
Marked 'Ledger 1835'. |