A watercolour showing Victoria, Princess Royal on her wedding day. She is shown kneeling at the alter with her face in her hands. She is dressed in a wedding dress of white moire antique trimmed with three flounces of Honiton lace. At top of each flounce are wreaths of orange and myrtle blossoms which match the wreath attached to her veil. Her bridesmaids are shown to the right, holding the Princess Royal's long train. They are dressed in white tulle dresses with wreaths of pink roses and white heather in their hair.
Inscribed lower right: VR del from recollection - 1858.
Inscribed below pasted in sheet: Vicky at her Marriage. Chapel Royal Jan: 25. 1858.

The Princess Royal married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in the Chapel Royal at St. James' Palace on 25 January 1858. Queen Victoria records the occasion in her journal entry of that day, describing how it was " The 2nd most eventful day in my life, as regarded feelings, for I felt almost as if it were I that was being married over again, only much more nervous" but that "My last fear of being overcome, vanished, when I saw Vicky's calm & composed manner. It looked beautiful seeing her kneeling beside Fritz, their hands joined, her long train born by the 8 young ladies, who looked like a cloud of young girls hovering round her, as they knelt near her".
There are two further versions of this drawing, RCIN 980031.be and 980056.aa