3-070-699 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Royal Marriage Festivities at Berlin: costume quadrille danced before the Emperor and Empress, 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. Our Special Artist, Mr. W. Simpson, furnishes the Illustrations presented in this Number of our Journal...One of [his] sketches represents the dancing of a quadrille, in fancy dresses of the eighteenth-century style, at the State Ball which was part of the festive entertainments upon this happy occasion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.