I believe from my flight in the late 80s that it was called "Crown Class" for a while - possibly to differentiate it from FIRST - but it was all one class and all Concorde service in the two cabins.

I recently went to visit the Air France Concorde and the Russian Konkordski TU-144 in Sinsheim, Germany.

The Russian aircraft had three cabins, and although most of the seats were removed in the example I saw, it did seems to me that the forward cabin would have been for VVIPs and Party Apparachiks, so perhaps you could have heard about that?

You can read more in my Trip Report:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...ferrerid=24296