Princess Louise

HRH The Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848-1939) was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She was the first member of the British royal family in several centuries to marry a subject of the crown, albeit a grand one: in 1871, she married John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (1845-1914), from 1900 the 9th Duke of Argyll. 

Princess Alice

HRH The Princess Alice Maud Mary (1843-1878) was the third child and second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In 1862, she married Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Karl, from 1877 Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (1837-1892). Princess Alice’s carte de visite is by Mayall; an image of Prince Ludwig, by Camille Silvy, can be found here.

The Prince of Wales

The Prince of Wales (born HRH The Prince Albert Edward, later King Edward VII, 1841-1910) was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In 1863, he married Princess Alexandra of Denmark (born HSH Princess Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, 1844-1925), the eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark. Edward’s carte de visite is by Mayall; Alexandra’s is by Vernon Heath (1819-1895).

Emperor Frederick III

The Princess Royal (born HRH The Princess Victoria Mary Adelaide Louisa, 1840-1901) was the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. In 1858, she married Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Nikolaus Karl, later Crown Prince of Prussia, Crown Prince of Germany, and briefly Emperor as Friedrich III, 1831-1888). Victoria’s carte de visite is by Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (born Lvov-Lvitsky, 1819-1898); Frederick’s is by Mayall.

Mayall Day

HRH The Prince Consort (born HSH Prince Franz August Karl Albrecht Emanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 1819-1861) married his first cousin Queen Victoria (1819-1901) in 1840. His carte de visite is by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (born Jabez Meal, 1813-1901); hers is by Ghémar Frères [Louis-Joseph Ghémar (1819-1873) and his half-brother Léon Louis Auverleaux] in Brussels. 

Mayall took the first set of cartes de visite of the British royal family in 1860.

Princess Alexandra of Denmark

Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), who married Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (from 1901 King Edward VII), Queen Victoria’s eldest son, in 1863.

Carte de visite by the Danish court photographer [Peter Ludvig] Rudolf Striegler (1816-1876).

Queen Victoria

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1876 Empress of India (1819-1901). 

Carte de visite by John Jabez Edwin Mayall (Jabez Meal, 1813-1901).

Prince of Hesse

[Friedrich Wilhelm] Ludwig IV Karl, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt (1837-1892), Queen Victoria’s son-in-law and the great-great-grandfather of King Charles III. 

CDV by Silvy, stamped at Silvy’s Crystal Palace stall.