3-070-697 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Wedding Medal for the Royal Marriage at Berlin, 1881. 'The marriage of Prince William of Prussia, Queen Victoria's grandson, to Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, niece to Prince Christian, the husband of our Queen's daughter Princess Helena, was celebrated at Berlin on Sunday last...A large medal, designed to commemorate this Royal marriage, is to be struck in gold, silver, and bronze. One side of the medal shows the portraits of the Prince and Princess, surmounted by the Prussian Royal Crown. The reverse side presents a shield bearing the arms of each, surmounted by crowns, with their monograms at the side, and with an inscription giving the date, Berlin, Feb. 27, 1881. This medal was designed by Count Seckendorff, after one of the time of Queen Mary Stuart and Francis II., King of France'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.