3-021-743 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Melford Hall, Suffolk: the shooting party counting the head of game, 1865. The future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra visit Lord and Lady Paget. '...the Prince, accompanied by the visitors staying at the hall, went in the afternoon to shoot in Spelthorne Wood. About 360 head of game were shot, including 181 pheasants. His Royal Highness killed with his own gun sixty pheasants, thirty hares, and forty rabbits. Whilst the gentlemen were shooting, her Royal Highness, accompanied by Lady Paget in one carriage and Lady Suffield and the Hon. Mrs. Coke in another, took a drive to Sudbury. On Thursday the Prince went to shoot in the Lineage Wood, and had very good sport; on Friday there was a regular battue in the covers in the park, and the slaughter was immense'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.