The Royal Visit to India: the Madras Club Ball, from a sketch by an officer of the Serapis, 1876. The future King Edward VII '...attended a ball given in his Prince [of Wales] wore full-dress Field Marshal's There were no native could exceed the taste or the brilliancy of the decorations, the ball-room itself being adorned with palm-trees placed between each of the arches opening into the 600 guests were the ball with Mrs. Shaw Steward, the wife of Colonel Steward, the president of the Royal Hi


The Royal Visit to India: the Madras Club Ball, from a sketch by an officer of the Serapis, 1876. The future King Edward VII '...attended a ball given in his Prince [of Wales] wore full-dress Field Marshal's There were no native could exceed the taste or the brilliancy of the decorations, the ball-room itself being adorned with palm-trees placed between each of the arches opening into the 600 guests were the ball with Mrs. Shaw Steward, the wife of Colonel Steward, the president of the Royal Highness and Mrs. Steward had for their vis a vis an Austrian Prince and Lady Mary [the] dancing went on most gaily, and it was nearly four o'clock [am] before the Prince left. He danced many times, and appeared to enjoy himself most thoroughly'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.


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