3-086-434 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Wantage, 1898. 'Following his visit to Reading on Saturday, June 11, where he opened the new College Buildings, the Prince of Wales proceeded to Lockinge [House], where his Royal Highness and the Princess of Wales were the guests of Lord and Lady Wantage until Monday. As they returned to town on Monday the royal party drove through the town of Wantage, where they were greeted with the National Anthem, sung by more than a thousand school children, stationed on a platform at the foot of King Alfred's statue in the market-place. A large and distinguished company, including the French Ambassador, the Marquis and Marchioness of Granby, Earl and Countess Grey, and Lord and Lady Henry Bentinek, was invited to meet their Royal Highnesses at Lockinge. This group teas taken after the inspection of Lord Wantage's Shire horses.' Lockinge House was demolished in 1947. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.