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Princess Louise presenting the prizes at Wimbledon, 1871. 'The ceremony of giving the prizes to the best shooters, at the National Rifle Association's meeting on Wimbledon-common [in south-west London], was performed by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne...The presentation of the prizes, at half-past three on Saturday afternoon, was in a pavilion over a raised stage in front of the Grand Stand. The Princess was accompanied by her husband, the Marquis of Lorne, and by Prince Arthur, who wore his uniform as Colonel of the London Irish. Earl and Countess Spencer, the Marquis of Westminster, Countess Ducie, and Lady Constance Grosvenor, with the Earl of Ducie, president of the National Rifle Association, were near her Royal Highness. The prize-winners were successively called up by Lord Ducie and introduced to the Princess, who handed them such of the prizes as were not too bulky and heavy for a lady to lift'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.