3-017-059 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Her Majesty the Queen planting the "Prince Consort's Oak" in Windsor Great Park, 1862. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Bambridge. 'On Tuesday, the 25th of November last, as our readers are aware, her Majesty planted an oak-tree to mark the spot in Windsor Great Park where the Prince Consort finished his last day's shooting, on the 23rd of November, 1861, just three weeks before his lamented decease. In our Engraving the Queen is represented holding the spade. On her Majesty's left hand stand Princess Alexandra and Princess Louise. Still further to the left, in a detached group, are Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Prince Leopold, and Count Gleicken. Behind her Majesty are the following attendants - namely, the Countess of Caledon, Baroness Von Schenck, Major-General Seymour (Deputy Ranger of the Park), Lieutenant-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddel, Colonel the Hon. D. De Ros, Mr. Menzies (Deputy Surveyor of Windsor Forest), and Mr. Cole (Head Keeper)'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.