3-011-980 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Prince and Princess of Wales embarking at Dundee for Denmark on Saturday last, 1864. '...the Prince and Princess of Wales, with their infant son, Prince Albert Victor, embarked at the Queen's Quay, in the harbour of Dundee, on their voyage to Copenhagen. The scene presented by the streets, which were densely thronged by the workpeople just released from the spinning-mills, manufactories, and dockyards for their Saturday half-holiday, was of the most animated description...the Royal carriage passed under the triumphal arch...commemorative of the Royal visit of 1844...the volunteers were ranged as a guard of honour, and at the jetty the band was stationed and received the Royal pair with the notes of the National Anthem...At length, plying its ten oars vigorously and displaying the Royal standard, the barge [of the Osborne] came alongside...(Our Special Artist made his sketch at the moment when the Prince and Princess stepped into the barge.) As the barge moved away a cordial cheer was once more raised, uttered, no doubt, with best wishes for a safe and speedy return. About half an hour afterwards another barge came alongside for the baby Prince, who, in charge of his nurse, had been driven quietly and unobservedly from the station'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.