| Description | Menu book for dinners and luncheons for William IV and Queen Adelaide, principally at Windsor Castle, occasionally at Kew, Egham [Windsor Great Park], and Cumberland Lodge [Windsor Great Park]. 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 for George FitzClarence and for Princess Augusta. One dinner was held at the Duke of Cumberland's.
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, occasionally held at Cumberland Lodge [Windsor] and Brighton Pavilion.
There are accounts of meat and fish consumed; game received and its provenance.
Marked 'Ledger 1832 Windsor Castle'. |