A watercolour showing the Jägersruh shooting lodge in the Thuringen Forest. The Jägersruh is shown on a grassy slope with tall fir trees shown behind. Inscribed lower left: [In German schrift] Jägersruhe [sic] - Tanzbuche. Sept: 25. 1862. Inscribed below pasted down sheet: The Jägersruhe- Tanzbuche - Sept: 25. 1862. Queen Victoria travelled to Brussels on 1 September 1862, to arrange the betrothal of her eldest son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. On the 4 September the Queen travelled to Reinhardsbrunn, where she stayed until 3 October 1862 in the house of her brother-in-law, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Queen Victoria made many visits to local beauty spots during her stay in Germany. On 25 September 1862, Queen Victoria went in a pony carriage to the Tanzbuche with her second daughter, Princess Alice, who was visiting her mother at the Reinhardsbrunn from her marital home in Darmstadt.