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Visit of the Shah: garden party at Chiswick, given by the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1873. The Shah of Persia in London. 'Having got back to London at half-past three in the afternoon, his Majesty, about five o'clock, drove to Chiswick, where the Prince and Princess of Wales entertained him, and the Queen their mother, with other Royal and noble guests, and a numerous company besides, in the gardens of the Duke of Devonshire's villa. The Persians of his Majesty's suite were in attendance, as well as the Earl of Morley, Rear-Admiral Lord F. Kerr, Colonel the Hon. H. Byng, Major-General the Hon. A. Hardinge, and the members of the British mission who brought his Majesty from Belgium to England. Her Majesty the Queen, the Cesarewitch of Russia and the Cesarevna, Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Arthur, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Duke and Duchess of Teck were present. The band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by Mr. D. Godfrey, played during the afternoon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.