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Souvenir - Flight Wine & Menu List for Queen Mother
1985Overview
white folded card, with a white sheet of paper inserted inside
front of card: logo and text
insert: text
Historical information
On 7th August 1985, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother took a special 2 hour royal flight on a British Airways Concorde to celebrate her 85th birthday.
The flight was a gift from British Airways, during which she flew at nearly twice the speed of sound and sat in the cockpit for the landing. She called the development of the Concorde a "great achievement".
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cwa-org-124-2025.266
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Menus
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Card
Paper
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Front of card: "Menu and Wine List. On the occasion of the flight in Concorde by HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, August 1985. British Airways"
Inside of card: "Wines. Liqueurs. Lunch" (details of the list can be located on photograph attached)
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Last modified
Friday, 24 October, 2025
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