2-791-361 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Departure of the funeral procession, on Tuesday, December 1844. Mourners outside Ranger's House in south London where the body of Princess Sophia of Gloucester, great-granddaughter of King George II lay in state. The coffin was then taken to St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle: 'The procession moved over Blackheath-hill, through Deptford, New-cross, Peckham, Camberwell, Camberwell New-road, Kennington-oval, over Vauxhall-bridge, up Grosvenor-place, through Hyde- park, and along the Edgeware-road to the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway, which was reached at five o'clock'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.