3-034-857 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Illness of the Prince of Wales: the bulletin at Marlborough House [in London], 1871. 'Day by day copies of the bulletins, as they arrived at Whitehall by telegraph...have been posted at the gateway of Marlborough House, in Pall-mall, by order of General Knollys. So eager and general was the desire to learn the state of the Prince on Friday and Saturday that the aid of the police had to be resorted to in maintaining order among the crowds...The same intense feeling obtained every day from morning till night...in the City and in all parts of London the condition of the Prince was the all-absorbing subject of conversation and anxiety, and great excitement prevailed throughout the whole day and far into the night...At Marlborough House the telegrams were watched for by large numbers of persons, who remained standing on the pavement and in the street, regardless of the piercing cold, anxious only to learn the latest intelligence as speedily as possible. As might be expected, the excitement there became very great on the arrival of a telegram'. The Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) suffered - and survived - an attack of typhoid fever (the illness of which his father had died 10 years earlier) while at his home at Sandringham in Norfolk. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.