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The Prince of Wales at Home: Reception at the Royal Italian Opera on Thursday night, 1876. The future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra attend a London stage production. 'The appearance of the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Royal Italian Opera in the evening, within two hours of their getting home, is shown in our front-page Engraving. It was, indeed, a graceful act of consideration for the public desire to see him immediately upon his return to London'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.