3-082-914 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The London Season: in Hyde Park - waiting for the Shahzada, 1895. Nasrullah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan, visits London. 'The season has so far been of unusual brilliance, as has been daily evident from the crowded state of "the Park" in the afternoon. For fashionable society in London there is only one park - Hyde Park, a picture of which we give this week. The cycling craze has lately drawn some well- known personages to another park, Battersea, in which, if report be true, a princess has been riding on a cycle. But modern likings soon change, and Hyde Park is as little likely to be neglected by the haut ton in the season as the Tower of London is likely to lose its country patrons'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.