3-021-738 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland: the Royal Party landing at the Victoria Wharf, Kingstown, 1868. '...a pavilion had been erected for the purpose of enabling the Royal visitors to set foot on the Irish shore under the most comfortable circumstances. This structure was commodious enough, but not very elegant. It was a wooden shed, built in the form of a boat-house...On each side were raised tiers of seats for the accommodation of a number of ladies and gentlemen who had secured tickets to witness the landing...The appearance of their Royal Highnesses was greeted with a loud burst of cheering. Ladies waved their handkerchiefs and gentlemen their hats. There could be no doubt as to the heartiness of the welcome thus offered to the Royal visitors; and both the Prince and Princess appeared highly pleased with their reception. The Princess...wore a dress and jacket of deep-blue tabinet, or poplin, trimmed with Irish lace; and a white bonnet of Irish lace, ornamented by a single rose. The Prince was in morning costume, and in the breast of his blue frock-coat he wore a rose, surrounded by a bunch of shamrocks. He also wore a cravat of the Irish colour, green...a Royal salute was fired by the guard-ship, the Royal George'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.