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Her Majesty Reviewing the Troops, at Aldershott, 1856. Army camp in Hampshire. 'The Prince Consort and the Duke of Cambridge accompanied the Queen [Victoria] on horseback, and the Princesses followed in a pony phaeton. Sir Frederic Smith, R.E., Viscount Hardinge, General Knollys, Brigadier-General Hutchinson, Colonel Grey, Lord Alfred Paget, &c., were in attendance on the illustrious party. As the Queen approached the line the whole of the regiments presented arms and lowered their colours, the united bands playing the National Anthem. Her Majesty first inspected the whole line, after which the forces were divided into brigades and marched into position, as if for the purpose of repulsing a flank and rear attack of an enemy...A keen wind and slight mist, which threatened heavier rain, terminated the engagement earlier than was originally intended'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.