3-065-587 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by the London Stereoscopic Company. 'The marriage of our Queen's second son to the Czar's only daughter is an occasion for congratulating both the English and Russian nations, and all the civilised world of Europe, and all that still needs the civilising power of these two great empires in Asia, upon the prospect of future peace and friendly co-operation...The Princes and Princesses of the two reigning families are determined, for their part, to keep up an entente cordiale which rests on their personal esteem for the amiable qualities of each other...As for him, the Duke of Edinburgh, Captain in the Royal Navy, we have nothing more to say of his Royal Highness than to repeat the former sincere expressions of our respectful admiration for his general character and behaviour, as an able and zealous officer, an English gentleman of high honour, and a Prince of exemplary loyalty and public spirit. He will be thirty next August, and it was quite time for him to provide himself with a wife. All the world has approved his choice; and we have only to wait its nuptial ratification...that we may offer them our most hearty felicitations upon this joyful occasion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.