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

The Royal Visit to Cambridge - the Senate-House: "Three Cheers for Denmark!", 1864. The Prince of Wales, (future King Edward VII) attends the conferring of degrees. 'The body of the hall and the galleries were, as usual, crowded with members of the University, and in the reserved seats were the distiguished visitors...Three cheers were given for Lord Palmerston and three hearty rounds of applause for the Prince and Princess...The Chancellor, accompanied by the Vice Chancellor and the Earl of Powis, took his seat upon the dais, and the Princess of Wales was conducted to the chair of state reserved for her. The cheers of the assembly, again and again renewed, poured forth in deafening volume to welcome her to the head-quarters of the University. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge and the members of the household, all in the scarlet robes of Doctors of Laws, entered shortly afterwards, and his Royal Highness received a welcome almost as enthusiastic as that bestowed upon his consort...The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge were installed Doctors of Laws...the proceedings were brought to a close by the presentation of medals to, and the recitation of prize poems by, successful competitors in the recent examination'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.