Description | Menu book for dinners and luncheons for William IV and Queen Adelaide, principally at Windsor Castle, occasionally at Kew, Bushy House [London], Sandhurst, Virginia Water, Ascot, London, Egham [Windsor Great Park, Race course], St James's. 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 Edinburgh Also includes dinners and lunches for the 1st Earl of Munster] and Princess Augusta.
A list of the people attending dinner is often provided. 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.
Chronological gap between f. 25v (25 October 1833) and 28v (1 March 1834).
Marked 'Ledger 1833 Windsor'. |