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February 10

On this day in 1840 the 20 year old Queen Victoria married her cousin Albert, also aged 20, of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later the Prince Consort. Their wedding ceremony took place at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, and their wedding breakfast was held at Buckingham Palace. This was the first wedding of a reigning Queen in England since 1554.
THE QUEEN SIGNS THE ‘DECLARATION AGAINST POPERY’
[VICTORIA (1819-1901, Queen of Great Britain)]
QUILL PEN used by Queen Victoria to sign her ‘Declaration against Popery’ at the opening of the first new Parliament following her Accession, 14 inches between its tips, with its neat original slit, three-eighths of an inch long, to take the ink, the barbs trimmed close for ease of handling, attested on a strip of paper in his bold hand by F. Percival who was present, the attestation 2” x 15¼”, [House of Lords, 20th November] 1837, the attestation rather worn, the pen’s writing end has a narrow split without loss about 2 inches long, over half of it closed, parallel to the slit for the ink, otherwise in good condition.
[ALBERT (1819-1861, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria)]
Ceremonial for the removal of the Prince Consort’s remains from Windsor Castle to St. George’s Chapel, listing the coaches in the procession, headed by “Two Valets and two Yägers”, “the four Physicians who were in attendance upon His late Royal Highness”, among the pallbearers are his close friend Major-General Wylde, the Prince of Wales was chief mourner, with the names of the British, French and German royalty, also Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, attending the coffin, and noting the music to be performed, 7 sides 13¼” x 8½” black-edged, stitched, Windsor, 23rd December 1861, small closed tear on last leaf, signs of original folding in an envelop


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