St. Edward’s Crown

Canadian National’s 1937 coronation menus each showed one of the symbols of the king’s authority, and CN repeated that in 1953. It managed to do so with only three menus by putting symbols on both the fronts and backs of the menus. In this case, the front cover shows the crown of St. Edward which, despite the name, was never worn by King Edward as he died in 1066 and the crown was made in 1661 for King Charles II.

Click image to download a 2.2-MB PDF of this menu.

The back of the menu shows the ampulla and spoon (also seen on a 1937 menu) and the sword of state. The ampulla was also made for the coronation of King Charles II. Since his coronation was the first after England’s civil war, during which many of the symbols of the monarchy were destroyed, many of those symbols were remade at that time.

Though the exterior of this menu is in English, the breakfast menu within is entirely in French. The left side has a la carte while the right has full meals.


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