2-982-087 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Guildhall Banquet to the Prince and Princess of Wales: the Loving Cup, 1876. The future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra are entertained by the Lord Mayor of London: '...the customary handing round and sipping of the Lord Mayor's "loving cup"...[The banquet] was a wondrous sight; and if it did cost twenty thousand pounds, more or less, it was well worth the money; and the evening's entertainment will fully bear the morning's reflection of auditors and finance committees...[it was] the very grandest of grand dinners'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.