ROYAL FAMILY GROUP AT COBURG, 1894

matte silver gelatin print, image size 28.5 x 37.6cm, mounted to oversize cabinet card by the Windsor studio of James Russell & Sons, glue residue to the margins, board size 33 x 41.5cm, in contemporary window mount, 44 x 53cm.

***The image shows Queen Victoria and her family at Coburg on 21 April 1894, assembled for the wedding of Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse. The Queen is surrounded by descendants from across Europe, including: her eldest daughter Victoria, Dowager Empress of German, Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), Nicholas Tsarevich of Russia and his then fiancee Princess Alexandra of Hesse, Crown Prince Ferdinand and Crown Princess Marie of Romania.