3-039-106 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Marriage of Princess Louise: throwing the slipper at the bride and bridegroom, 1871. 'At a quarter past four the bride and bridegroom left Windsor Castle, in a carriage with four greys, for Claremont, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards. They were accompanied to the carriage in the quadrangle, or to the door of the Castle where it stood in waiting, by many of their kinsmen and kinswomen...Handkerchiefs were waved to bid them farewell. Showers of satin slippers were thrown after them as they drove off, and a broom, the Scottish token of wishing good luck upon such an occasion...Outside the precincts of the Castle, a great multitude of people awaited their passage. There was a continual cheer along High-street, the Marquis repeatedly bowing his acknowledgments'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.