3-065-758 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Queen and Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh at the balcony at Buckingham Palace, 1874. Queen Victoria, her son Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, with his new bride, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, are welcomed by Londoners. '...everywhere were to be found numbers of people cheering lustily in spite of the snow which fell...At the gate itself the throng was very dense, and sent forth cheer upon cheer for some time after the Royal party were fairly within the palace. They kindly showed themselves for one moment at a balcony in front'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.