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His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in his Uniform as Colonel in the Army - from a photograph by Mayall, 1858. 'It is in the neat and simple uniform which alone unattached officers of the army are allowed by the regulations of the service to wear that his Royal Highness appears in the portrait before us, and there is only the ribbon and star of the Order of the Garter, and his youthful figure and countenance, to distinguish him from any other officer of the rank and position in the army which he holds. The dress itself is hardly more indebted to the tailor's art, and is almost as void of ornamentation as the severely sober costume which is all that the rules of the sister service into which Prince Alfred has entered allow to a naval cadet; and in both instances one cannot help feeling that there is a certain good sense and good taste in the circumstance that the youthful scions of the blood Royal have not been suffered to adopt any of the display or gaudiness of trappings which could have been placed within their reach, and which might have been the case had they been appointed, the one to any of the hussar or light cavalry regiments, and the other to a different grade in the navy'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.