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# Queen Victoria's 1893 Visit to Wales This page from *The Illustrated London Weekly* (June 4, 1893) documents Queen Victoria's royal tour of Wales. The silhouette portrait shows the elderly queen in profile, while accompanying illustrations depict the carriage she used and the Welsh landscape she toured. The text emphasizes the ceremonial nature of the visit: Victoria received bouquets of dandelions (symbolic of Welsh subjects), attended religious services, and visited industrial sites including mines and manufacturing works. An incident is noted where her crown fell off near a barbed-wire fence—a moment of vulnerability for the imperious monarch. The coverage celebrates Victoria's interest in Welsh industries and culture, presenting the tour as a successful demonstration of royal engagement with her subjects, though the modest dandelions as gifts suggest the relatively humble circumstances of the Welsh people she visited.
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON WEEKLY, Joxe 4, 1892. THE QUEEN’S VISIT TO WALES. As the royal train crossed the border Anthony Dhulisb, D. D. After at Glywp-an-Tremddoc and stopped at breakfast Her Majesty drives a ~<a Caergonwg, the girls of the Tregargon spirited Electioneer colt to the post- orphanage, attired in white muslin office for her mail, very often tell- dresses and goloshes, presented Her {ng the post-master whatshe thinks Majesty with a bouquet of dandelions of him if he happens to have no wales naxpsounorrtix 3° sang ‘ goa cere ee aoe a lenere for bee Rn Majest 8 the conclusion of the anthem, Sir ter luncheon Her Majes SOLI STERL PRESENTED BY Dovid Kidwelly, of Dolgwily, the Lord takes‘ nap. ‘The doore and wine TLewan wuo saven nen High Beadle of North Wales, clad in dows are carefully plugged with LIFE AT SWLLNPT. his offictal robes, with eword and spurs, cotton so that the royal slumbers started to deliver an address shall not be disturbed, and to keep celved the royal command to shut up, and the train moved on to the neighbors from complatning to Liywellyffraw. Here touching Incident occurred. Her Majesty the Board of Health about the alighted from the royal saloon and started to walk two miles royalsnoring. During the evening cross-lots to view the cascade at Piwilape. As she was climbing two maids read Lire aloud to Her a barbed-wire fence, her crown fell off, and in receneg to Majesty, and afteranhour ortwoof catch It she lost her balance and would have fallen if she had not ony-ante, straights barred, Her been caught by Morganaeron, of Usk. On herreturn tothe train, Majesty retires, Out of deference Her Majesty presented her preserver with a solid steel pen, of to her Welsh subjects Her Majesty ROOWATEMS, which our artist bad made a faithful and graphic drawing. eats nothing but Welsh rarebits. Tus QUEEN'S vistt TO THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO WALES.— MAP OP WALES, Daring her visit Her Majes- ty has become greatly inter ested in the copper-mining industries of ‘ales, and in ber walks about has picked up numerous speci- mens of refuse ore. These she will bave mounted as scarfpins and brooches to be used for wedding gifts and rewards of valor. She has also been pleased to manifest her {nterest in local commerce by purchas- og a pair of white cotton bose from a leading firm in the baberdasbery line. Her Majesty bas paid con- siderable attention to field sports during her stay and {s becoming quite an expert player at mumbletypeg. She jaughsas heartily as anyone when she has to remove her crown and get down on her face and pay the usual pen- alty. She fs also very fond of Jack-stones, and on rainy days spends hours on the THB QUEEN'S VISIT TO WALES—THE SUBURBS OP OLYWPP-AP-BLNKPBTWY. THE DOTTED LINES SUOW A WASTY back piazza playing this 1p- WALK TAKEN - . EN BY HER MAJESTY BEFORE BREAKPAST. terestiog game. with the matds of honor at sixpence As the train moved {nto Merthyr Tyffgwilin the acorner. She usually pays when Cairnaergon Yeomanry Band played the national The climate of Wales seems to agree with Her anthem, and Her Majesty alighted amid a storm of Mojesty. She is galning in weight and her last lusty British cheers. “She entered the Mayor's coach, drawn by four milk-white Shetlands, and the procession moved towards Guildhall. The royal equipage was preceded by Amity Lodge, No. 36, F. A. A. M., and Minerva Hook and Ladder Co., No.2. I followed by the Butchers’ Benevo- lent and Protective Association, aud the Eleventh Ward Gentlemen's Sons’ Chowder Club. At Guildhall the Mayor presented an address which Her Majesty graciously accepted and put in her pocket to read or build a fire with on some future occasion. Her Majesty then proceeded to lay five corner stones in different parts of the city, and turned over several spadefals of earth to mark the beginning of the work on the Jones Street Trolley Road. After these ceremonies Her Majesty was escorted to Glwitwddys Castle, where she will remain for a fortnight. Her life there {s delightfully almple and . unconventional. Each morning before breakfast THE QUEEN'S VisIT TO she goes for a stroll of ten or twelve miles through Be Onn eee wax wun the mountains, escorted alternately by the ith THINKS Hen wasesty now. Welsh Fusiliers, under command of Col. the Hon. zp To mim as Tue train Sir Andrew Trivgwylln, K. C, B., and the 8lst rag queen's visit TO WALES.—CARRIAGE IN WICH HER WENT BY. Royal Horse Marines, under command of Lt.-Col." smavesry DRIVES TO THE VILLAGE Tow HER LETTERS, comicbooks.com