ROYAL WEDDINGS UNDER QUEEN VICTORIA
[Drop-head title:] Ceremonial. St. James's Palace, January 25, 1858. Upon this day, at half-past Twelve o'Clock, P.M., was solemnized at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, the Marriage of Her Royal Highness Victoria-Adelaide-Mary-Louisa, Princess Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, Eldest Daughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria...with His Royal Highness Prince Frederic-William-Nicolas-Charles, Only Son of His Royal Highness Frederic-William-Louis, Prince of Prussia....
[London].
[Printed by Harrison and Sons], [1858].
28pp.
[Together with:] Ceremonial. Windsor castle, 10th March, 1863. Upon this day at half-past twelve o'clock, was solemnized at Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, the Marriage of HIs Royal Highness Albert Edward...with Her Royal Highness The Princess Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia, eldest daughter of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark. [London]. [Printed by Harrison and Sons], [1863]. 33pp, [1].
[And:] [Drop-head title:] Ceremonial observed At the Marriage of Her Royal Highness The Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, Third Daughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria...with HIs Royal Highness The Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein, K.G., in the Chapel within Windsor Castle, on Thursday, the 5th day of July, 1866, at Half-past Twelve o'Clock. [London]. [Printed by Harrison and Sons], [1866]. 15pp, [1].
[And:] [Drop-head title:] Ceremonial as observed At the Marriage of Her Royal Highness The Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Fourth Daughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria...with John Douglas Sutherland, Marquis of Lorne, in Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, on Tuesday, the 21st March, 1871. [London]. [Harrison and Sons], [1871]. 19pp, [1].
Folio. Uniformly finely bound in original publisher's navy silk moire, supralibros of the royal arms to upper boards. Immaculate.
[Together with:] Ceremonial. Windsor castle, 10th March, 1863. Upon this day at half-past twelve o'clock, was solemnized at Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, the Marriage of HIs Royal Highness Albert Edward...with Her Royal Highness The Princess Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia, eldest daughter of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark. [London]. [Printed by Harrison and Sons], [1863]. 33pp, [1].
[And:] [Drop-head title:] Ceremonial observed At the Marriage of Her Royal Highness The Princess Helena Augusta Victoria, Third Daughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria...with HIs Royal Highness The Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein, K.G., in the Chapel within Windsor Castle, on Thursday, the 5th day of July, 1866, at Half-past Twelve o'Clock. [London]. [Printed by Harrison and Sons], [1866]. 15pp, [1].
[And:] [Drop-head title:] Ceremonial as observed At the Marriage of Her Royal Highness The Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Fourth Daughter of Her Majesty Queen Victoria...with John Douglas Sutherland, Marquis of Lorne, in Saint George's Chapel, Windsor, on Tuesday, the 21st March, 1871. [London]. [Harrison and Sons], [1871]. 19pp, [1].
Folio. Uniformly finely bound in original publisher's navy silk moire, supralibros of the royal arms to upper boards. Immaculate.
A finely preserved collection of the official printed accounts of the marriage ceremonials for four of the children of Queen Victoria and her consort, Albert, including those of her eldest child, Princess Victoria - who married Prince Frederick William of Prussia (1831-1888) in 1858, and heir Albert Edward, later King Edward VII - who married Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925) in 1863. Each is finely bound in original blue silk moire, and finely preserved.
The epithet 'Grandmother of Europe' was aptly applied to Victoria; as these marriage ceremonials demonstrate, her children were wed into the monarchies of Europe. The offspring of the Princess Royal's marriage included Kaiser Wilhelm II, whilst her eldest son sired the future King George V.
£ 2,500.00
Antiquates Ref: 33207
The epithet 'Grandmother of Europe' was aptly applied to Victoria; as these marriage ceremonials demonstrate, her children were wed into the monarchies of Europe. The offspring of the Princess Royal's marriage included Kaiser Wilhelm II, whilst her eldest son sired the future King George V.
