3-016-997 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Volunteer Review in Hyde Park [London]: the Prince of Wales and his staff, 1864. '...the Prince and Princess of Wales came not only to witness the affair, but his Royal Highness took an active part in it as commander of his own brigade. This circumstance, with the general popularity of the young couple, as well as the growing interest that is felt in the volunteer movement drew together a...[large] multitude of all ranks and classes of the people...the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived, amidst a salute of guns fired at the Knightsbridge Barracks. They came from Marlborough House, the Prince on horseback, wearing the uniform of Colonel of the Hon. Artillery Company, which resembles very nearly, as Londoners are aware, the uniform of the Grenadier Guards. His Highness also wore the blue ribbon of the Order of the Garter, and he was mounted on a superb chestnut-coloured charger. He looked both a soldier and a Prince. He rode into the park with the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces, who was attired as a Field Marshal, with the Garter ribbon on his breast; and they were accompanied by Prince Louis of Hesse, the husband of our Princess Alice, dressed as a Prussian General of artillery'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.