3-052-782 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Princess of Wales selling flowers at the bazaar for the Kensington Industrial and Training Girls' School, 1880. 'At the ladies' fancy bazaar held in Kensington House, the Princess of Wales, with her children, helped the Duchess of Teck in selling flowers. It was for the benefit of the Kensington Industrial and Training School for Girls...At half-past five in the afternoon came the Prince and Princess of Wales, with the King of Greece and their two sons and three daughters. Her Royal Highness and the young people immediately went up to the Duchess of Teck's flower-stall, took up their positions behind it, along with the Duke and Duchess of Teck and their children, and began to sell roses, bunches of pinks and carnations, pansies or heartsease, little glass or porcelain cups, with flowers in them, and other such articles, to the eager throng of purchasers in front of the stall...The Princess was dressed in mourning for the Empress of Russia's death; but they were all in good spirits, and the fun of the scene was enjoyed by everyone present. The young Princes and Princesses were very active and busy, going about the room and selling "button-holes" - that is to say, flowers to he put in the button-hole of a gentleman's coat'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.