| Collection | Georgian Menu Books |
| Reference | MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/MIXED/16 |
| Title | Menu book for William IV, the Queen consort and their Household, principally at Windsor Castle. |
| Date | 25 December 1830 - 9 August 1832 |
| Description | Menu book for dinners and lunches for William IV and Queen Adelaide, principally at Windsor Castle, occasionally at Kew, Bushy House [London], and Virginia Water [Windsor]. It also includes dinners and lunches for Princess Louise [of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, niece of Queen Adelaide] and George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster. A list of the people attending dinner is often provided.
Information about their Majesties' dinners out: at the Duke of Cumberland's [Ernest Augustus ]; at Duke of Buccleuch's [Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott]; at the Grand Duchess Helen's; at the Earl of Lichfield's [Thomas William Anson]; at Chiswick.
Menu book provides details of dinners served to members of the King and Queen's Household.
There are accounts of meat and fish consumed; game received and its provenance.
Marked 'Ledger 1830 Windsor Castle'. |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 1 volume (251 folios) |
| Physical Description | Vellum binding |
| Access Conditions | Available in surrogate form only |
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| Level | File |
| Credit | Crown Copyright |