Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli's Assembly at the new Foreign Office, [London], 1868. View of '...the entertainment given to a large assembly of persons of rank and new Foreign Office is part of the quadrangle of architect is Mr. George Gilbert interior, decorated by Messrs. Clayton and Bell, is grand centre to which the company converged was the Secretary of State's chandelier, suspended from the centre of the ceiling, with small candelabra fixed round the walls of the room, effectively lighted the room. Rich carpets were spread every
Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli's Assembly at the new Foreign Office, [London], 1868. View of '...the entertainment given to a large assembly of persons of rank and new Foreign Office is part of the quadrangle of architect is Mr. George Gilbert interior, decorated by Messrs. Clayton and Bell, is grand centre to which the company converged was the Secretary of State's chandelier, suspended from the centre of the ceiling, with small candelabra fixed round the walls of the room, effectively lighted the room. Rich carpets were spread everywhere, and banks of flowers were placed in every convenient Duke of Cambridge and Prince Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Captain Ellis, arrived precisely at half-past of the members of the Corps Diplomatique and foreigners of rank, several past or present Cabinet Ministers, including Mr. Gladstone, and a great many of the members of the two Houses of Parliament, with the ladies accompanying them, were amongst the entertainment was very successful'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.
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