From a Photograph taken for this Work] [by T. C. Hepworth.
THE PRINCESS OF WALES’S DINNERS: THE DINNER TO CRIPPLED CHILDREN AT THE PEOPLE’S PALACE.
The Princess of Wales stands in the centre of the platform with the Prince of Wales on her right. The photograph was taken during the “silence for Grace.”
|State Reception.| A State Reception at Buckingham Palace, where Her Majesty was represented by the Prince and Princess of Wales, brought the festivities of June 24 to a close.
Friday, the 25th, was marked by an afternoon performance of “The Bells” and “The Story of Waterloo” at the Lyceum Theatre, to which the men of the Colonial Contingent had been kindly invited by Sir Henry Irving. |Special Performance at the Lyceum.| Sir Henry was uproariously cheered on his first appearance and at every interval during the afternoon, and after the splendid presentation of “The Bells” he was called again and again before the curtain, and finally compelled to make a speech. He said:—
“Ladies and Gentlemen—I will say my dear comrades—for your greeting to-day proves that we are comrades, one and all—I cannot tell you how great a delight and pleasure it has been to us to have the honour, the privilege, and the pride of making you welcome here to-day, and I hope—I can but hope—that centuries hence our children will hold very dear to them the spirit which gives us the opportunity of meeting you; that spirit of love for our Queen and our country—that great nation which you typify—which is the strength and glory and power of it; and of that sweet and gracious lady, that beloved Queen of ours, for whom your swords will flash and our hearts will pray. I thank you with all my heart and soul for your welcome, and I thank you on behalf of one and all behind this curtain, and we send our most cordial greeting to one and all in front.”
Eton College has always enjoyed the favour of royalty, and on the evening of Saturday, June 26, the boys furnished one of the most picturesque celebrations of Jubilee time. In the morning the Queen had entertained, in the Home Park at Windsor, five or six thousand children. |Torchlight Evolutions by Etonians.| After that a grand review of firemen from all parts of the country took place. At ten o’clock in the evening the Queen took up her place in a window in the east corridor, and the Eton boys filed into the Quadrangle (many of them in the uniform of their Volunteer Corps) each boy carrying a torch or a lantern. A beautiful effect was produced when the boys went through a variety of intricate evolutions.
Lucien Davis, R.I.]
THE STATE RECEPTION AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE: ENTRANCE OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.