2-717-156 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Queen Victoria's Plantagenet Costume Ball at Buckingham Palace, May 7, 1842: Her Majesty as Queen Philippa; The Prince Consort as Edward III', (1901). Fancy dress party, with costumes from the Plantagenet period (c1154-1485), held by Victoria (1819-1901) at Buckingham Palace in London. Victoria is dressed as Philippa of Hainault (1314-1369), and her husband Prince Albert (1818-1861) wears the costume of King Edward III 1312-1377). 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]