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Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver Medal 1879, 155.25 g. Marriage of the Duke of Connaught to Princess Louise of Prussia. By J. S. and A. B. Wyon. Busts, conjoined. PRINCESS LOUISE MARGARET OF PRUSSIA * ARTHUR, DUKE OF CONNAUGHT & STRATHEARNE K . G. Armorial shields of the couple, crowned; ribbon below inscribed MAR : 13 1879. Within an ornament quatrefoil. Plain edge. 64 mm. Eimer 1662. BHM 3052. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Rand etwas bearbeitet / Some tooling on edge.

Purchased from Hess Divo, Zurich, May 2001.

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1 May 1850 - 16 January 1942) was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He served as Governor General of Canada, the tenth since Canadian Confederation and the only British prince to do so.

His future wife, Princess Luise Margarete of Prussia, was born in Potsdam in 1860. Her father Prince Friedrich Karl (1828-1885) was the son of Carl of Prussia and his wife Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Through him, she was a grandniece of Kaiser Wilhelm I.

For the wedding, she boarded the royal yacht 'Victoria and Albert' in Fluching in the Netherlands and landed with her entourage in Sheppey on 12 March. From there, they travelled to Windsor on a special train operated by the London and South-Western Railway. On 13 March 1879, the wedding took place in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. The couple had three children.