2-798-739 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Celebration of His Royal Highness Prince Albert's birthday, at Rosenau, 1845. Dancers at the birthplace and boyhood home of Prince Albert in Germany. '...thirteen or fourteen couples - each lad with a lass - dressed in the extreme of the Coburg rural costume...the band struck up, and in a moment the lawn was covered with waltzers, the bright coloured dresses and flowing ribbons flashing along in strong and agreeable contrast with the surrounding trees and shrubs...At the close of the fifth or sixth waltz, the procession formed again, filed before her Majesty and the Prince; and, in the order in which it came, descended the slope to the little inn now occupied by the Royal servants, where a dinner was provided for them, and here they spent the day, as the phrase goes with us, "in the utmost conviviality"'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.