Margaret Brecknell
Princess Louise opening the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children at Chelsea in June 1876
With last year’s wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St George’s chapel, Windsor, still fresh in the consciousness, it is timely to look again at a similarly groundbreaking royal marriage which took place at the same venue during the latter part of the 19th century. Indeed, it may be argued that it set the precedent for many royal marriages since. I am referring to the wedding of Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, Princess Louise, to the marquis of Lorne, eldest son of the duke of Argyll.