3-008-664 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The marriage of Princess Alice with Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt: Departure of Their Royal Highnesses from Osborne for St. Clare, the seat of Colonel Harcourt, 1862. '...the Royal bride and bridegroom retired to St. Clare, at Spring Vale, the residence of Colonel and Lady Katherine Vernon Harcourt...[It was] selected by the Queen for the honeymoon of the Prince and Princess...on account of [its] beautiful situation...The stay of their Royal Highnesses was brief at St. Clare, as on Friday last they returned to Osborne. It is stated that the Prince and Princess intend to reside at Frogmore, and Clarence House, St. James's, which the Queen has placed at their disposal'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.