Lucien Davis, R.I.] [Partly from a Photograph specially taken for this Work by H. N. King.
HER MAJESTY’S GARDEN PARTY: INDIAN VISITORS.
The subsequent garden party in the gardens of Buckingham Palace was one of the most brilliant functions on record. The weather was beautifully fine, and there was a unique attendance of Royal and other guests; the Colonial Premiers were present, and the whole of the special envoys of Foreign Powers and other distinguished Jubilee guests. |Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.| The grounds were opened at four o’clock, and in a very short time the dresses of the ladies and the brilliant uniforms of men transformed them into a moving blaze of colour. Her Majesty’s guests amused themselves in a variety of ways—a favourite form of diversion being a row on the Palace lake, on which were a large number of boats in charge of picturesquely-attired Queen’s watermen.
When Her Majesty had traversed the lawn, and Lord Lathom had pointed many of the people out to her, she moved to the entrance of her own tent, and sat sipping tea and eating strawberries, with a white apron—the strings of which passed over her shoulders—spread on her lap in the homeliest fashion.
Mr. Chamberlain. Sir W. Laurier.
A. Fairfax Muckley.] [From a Photo by W. & D. Downey.
HER MAJESTY’S GARDEN PARTY: THE SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIES AND THE CANADIAN PREMIER.