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Royal visits - What was on the menu?
By Joan Bruce, Specialist Librarian, State Library of Queensland | 6 June 2014
State Library of Queensland has a large collection of bits and pieces about royalty and their visits to Queensland.
Among the brochures and programmes and invitations you will find quite a few menus for official luncheons and dinners held over the last 100 years.
1920 Prince of Wales. This banquet at Finney's Cafe was topped off with cheese straws.








More information about royal visits to Queensland.
Come into the library to browse through the "Royalty and royal visits" ephemera. The John Oxley Library is open 7 days a week from 10am to 5pm.
Joan Bruce - State Library of Queensland
John Oxley Library (1976)Collections (1692)Digitised content (664)Royal visits (12)Royalty (4)Queen Elizabeth II in Queensland (12)Menus (1)Prince of Wales (3)Princess Alice (1)Duke of Windsor (1)
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