The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Matters in the Royal family.

‘ On the ninth of next month Queen Victoria marries her daughter, the Princess Alice, to Prince Louis of Hesse — provided the King of Belgium is well enough to be present who is to act in the place of her father. For this event the Queen leaves Balmoral next week and returns to Caborne, where the nuptials are to take place, much to the regret of the fashionable London world and the dissatisfaction of the great body of milliners and trades-people generally, with whom such occasions are usually a matter of great pecuniary importance. Some talk is to be heard in reference to the Queen's consenting to this marriage before the young lady's father has been in his grave six months, but it is understood that them are State reasons that render it desirable. Still, some people think that if the Queen can so far forget her grief in this instance; she might otherwise relax the severity of her mourning, and thus infuse life into the general stagnation that prevails in court circles and their .

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