'A Royal Family Group', 10 March 1863, (c1897). Creator: E&S Woodbury. # 2694059

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'A Royal Family Group', 10 March 1863, (c1897). 'Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Alice and Prince Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, The Queen, Princess Beatrice, Princess Royal, Prince Arthur - photographed on the day of the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales'. In the centre of the group is a bust of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, who died aged 42 in 1861. The Queen mourned him for the rest of her life - she is seen here all in black. The future King Edward VII and his bride the Princess Alexandra, are top left. From Sixty Years A Queen: The Story of Her Majesty's Reign, by Sir Herbert Maxwell. [Harmsworth Bros, Limited, London, c1897]

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Creator

E&S Woodbury, attributed to: British?: Engravers, printmakers

Subject

Queen Alexandra: Danish: Queen
King Edward VII: British: King
Queen Victoria: British: Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, artist
Princess Alice: British: Princess
Louis of Hesse: German: Grand Duke of Hesse
Princess Helena: British: Princess
Duke of Connaught: British: Prince, duke, soldier, aristocrat
Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodora Wettin: British:

People Related

Sir Herbert Maxwell: British, Scottish: Writer, author, novelist, essayist, artist, antiquarian, horticulturalist, Conservative politician
John Jabez Edwin Mayall: American: Photographer, daguerrotypist