2-913-515 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Funeral Procession leaving Cambridge House, Piccadilly, [London], 1850. Death of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge. '...some few hundred persons had assembled on the brow of the hill opposite Cambridge House...Shortly after five o'clock, the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Coldstream Guards (the late Duke's regiment) marched through Piccadilly, en route from St. George's Barracks to Kew, where it had been arranged they should form a guard of honour to receive the Royal remains upon their arrival. One hundred men of the regiment filed off at Cambridge House...and formed in the courtyard in front of the mansion...At six o'clock the number of persons assembled had considerably increased, and all the windows of the houses within view were occupied. The hearse and other funeral paraphernalia now arrived, and the marshalling of the procession was at once proceeded with'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.