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THEIR RR.HH. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. 
ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALFRED, 
YAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS HELENA. 
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HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE LEOPOLD. 
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS an DUCHESS OF CAMBRIDGE. 
S ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G. 
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINOR SÉ MARY OF CAMBRIDGE. 
TiEUT.-GENERAL аы ae -Corn. KEPPEL, THE EARL or Mount EDGOUMBE, 
tendance on H.R.H. THE Prince or WALES. 
THe Lorp Hise ESL, Tar un DE rap AND Ripon, THE 08, Mns. 
FRANCES STONOR, in attendance оп Н.В. Е PRINCESS OF WaL 
Ma CowELr, В.Е. C.B., in attendance on iH. n. H. Prince Fa coe 
LADY CAROLINE BARRINGTON, in attendance on H.R.H. Princess HELENA and H.R.H. 
E LOUISA. 
Малов of cops a in таа, оп H.R.H. PRINCE sharpie 
Mr. Burr, in attendance on H.R.H. Prince LEOPO 
LADY GERALDINE SOMERSET and ueris Номе Purves, in ab ik жш on their 
RR.HH. THE DUCHESS or CAMBRIDGE and PRINCESS Mary 0 Е. 
Cor. ТүвїүнїтТ, in attendance оп H.R.H. THE DUKE or CAMBRIDGE, 
The procession in this order moved half-way down the nave of the 
Exhibition Building, then, turning to the left, ascended to the galleries, 
and crossing the upper refreshment room filed into the balcony, the first 
part of it taking the rear or highest row, the next ee - middle 
range, x the remainder and the Royal party passing to the . 
n all had taken their places, the Council of the Royal пона! 
Society came forward, and their President penis the following address 
to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 
May IT PLEASE your ROYAL HIGHNESS: 
Sir,— We, the Council of the Royal 7. eerie — approach your Royal 
Highness with grateful thanks for the opport you have afforded us of wel- 
coming oe in Royal (€ and her Royal Hiha; the Princess of Wales to the 
We cannot Туз; roms to your Royal Highness our heartfelt congratulations on the 
happy union which has diffused so much joy throughout the kingdom. and which we 
trust will be the source LR А оре continued happiness to yourself and her Royal 
Highness ке bre of W: 
ccasion, sbs ga n led with prs MK. when ve reme ^ he un 
speakable loss which we have sustained since we were privileged, only two short y 
ess of welcome Ш — Prince—yo тае. our 
President, in which we offered our congratula openin 
tio g of the Ga 
on the success cen had attended his endeavours to promote the prosperity 2 use- 
rod of the Soc 
Penetrated as w with the deepest gri ief for the loss we have sustained by the 
pae death of shat в g good Prince, we ess lively emotions 
of gratitude and thankfulness PER that the interest which was taken by His 
Royal Highness in the E M and the protection which has been extended to it by 
He i nara A the quom. are also participated in by your Royal Highness and the other 
ers of the Royal fam 
Ne rejoice also to know that your Royal Highness’ feelings are shared by her Royal 
Highness the Princess of Wales, as has been so recen ntly manifested by her conde- 
scending to allow herself to be elected a Fellow of the Society. 
The selection of the site for the Memorial of Me International Exhibition of 1851, 
within this Garden, is a source of gratification to the Council ; we thereby have in "us 
view of our Fellows а а lasting remembrance of "dis late deeply lamented Presiden 
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