Yes, Royal Class. They even offered Royal Class on intra-European flights until the late sixties or early seventies. Not unusual, back then even the DDR's Interflug offered shorthaul first class, presumably for all these egalitarian communist offcials. . I remember that the first class cabin on Interflug's Ilyushin 18s was at the very back of the aircraft, the front was too noisy.

In intercontinental Royal Class you were at one time given a Delft Blue tile, but I do not know whether that was in addition to a house. I read an article somewhere a while back about a guy in Sweden who had actually tiled his toilet or bathroom with them.

There was also a period when they offered a choice of two gifts, one of which was a small dark blue hard-shell case. I found a bunch of those when looking for a shotgun in my mother attic the other day. I also recall that my sister and I were given a case each to use as mini suitcases when we traveled. To keep them apart my mother tied a pink ribbon on my sister's, and a blue one to mine.

Other gifts inlcluded pens and leather zip cases, but whether these were given out in Royal Class I can no longer say.

On intra-European flights they came around with a tray from which one could select a gift. I only remember the large cigars, because it raised eyebrows when I generously helped myself to them when traveling as an uaccompanied minor at the age of eight.

I just rummaged through a drawer and found a gold & black fountain pen with the text "1919 KLM 1969", and a matching pencil. Another 50th anniversary gift was a green case with a letter opener and a pair of scissors, in gold and silver. I won't forget those easily, because I broke the scissors and then hid them to escape my mom's wrath.

johan