3-017-001 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Volunteer Review in Hyde Park [London]: the Princess of Wales and her suite, 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 engraving shows] the Princess of Wales [future Queen Alexandra], with Princess Alice, and Princess Mary of Cambridge, in an open barouche drawn by four horses, while the general officer attending her Royal Highness is on horseback in front. The Princess of Wales is dressed in deep mourning, and has Princess Alice by her side. Princess Mary of Cambridge is seated opposite to them'. Princess Alexandra's grandfather, Frederick VII of Denmark, had died a few months previously. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.