3-046-947 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Three Emperors at Berlin: arrival at the banquet in the White Hall of the Old Palace, 1872. Celebrations 'upon the occasion of the visit of the Emperor of Russia and the Emperor of Austria to the Emperor of Germany... The Empress Augusta of Germany is conducted to the table by the two illustrious guests of her husband, one holding each hand, the Emperor of Russia on her right, the Emperor of Austria on her left. The Emperor of Germany follows, with his amiable daughter-in-law, Victoria, Crown Princess of Prussia and Germany, Princess Royal of England, taking his arm. The Crown Prince, with another lady on his arm, comes last of the party. The Emperors of Russia and Austria wore Prussian military uniforms, with the star and chain of the Black Eagle; while the Emperor of Germany wore an Austrian uniform, with the blue scarf of the Russian Order of St. Andrew; and the Crown Prince, reversing the compliment, had a Russian uniform, with an Austrian decoration; the ladies were attired in white and blue satin. Two hundred guests sat down in the White Hall to this state dinner, which took place at the early hour of four in the afternoon. They remained at table an hour and a quarter'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.