THE WEDDING OF EDWARD VII AND ALEXANDRA [EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) & ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his Queen) with Queen VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]

Unsigned carte de visite photo by John Jabez Mayall
JOHN JABEZ EDWIN MAYALL (1813-1901)
taken after the royal Wedding, showing the royal family posed around a bust of Prince Albert. The family are arranged, from left to right, Princess Louise, Alexandra, Princess of Wales, Queen Victoria, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, Princess Alice of Hesse, Princess Helena and Prince Louis of Hesse. Queen Victoria is holding a photograph of Prince Albert, the couple have changed into the clothes they wore to make their wedding journey to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, 4" x 2¾", Windsor, March 10th

Because the Queen was still in the deepest mourning, the wedding was held at St. George's Chapel at Windsor. The small venue meant that only Alix's closest family members were invited, and Bertie was limited to inviting six friends. A wedding breakfast for five hundred was held under a tent (fortunately the weather was sunny at this point) with another enormous cake, and then the bride and groom went away to dress for their wedding journey to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. "Ah, dear brother, what a sad and dismal ceremony it was!" the Queen wrote later to the King of Prussia.
John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813-1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria


Item Date:  1863

Stock No:  41362      £275

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