2-716-598 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India, 1877: The Imperial Durbar at Delhi, New Year's Day', (1901). The ceremony, at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, was attended by Viceroy of India Lord Lytton, British officers and colonial officials, and by numerous maharajas and princes. The Queen herself was not present. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]