Victoria, Princess Royal, later Empress of Germany (1840-1901)

Hand-tinted ambrotype of Princess Victoria wearing her wedding dress. She is seated facing right wearing a white lace dress decorated with flowers and a veil. The ambrotype is mounted in a gilt frame housed in a brown leather case with a red velvet interior. Princess Victoria married Prince Frederick of Prussia on the 25th of January 1858 in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace. Williams was commissioned to take two photographs to mark the event, the other showing the bride with her parents. There are no photographs of the wedding itself, as it would have been impossible to make adequate exposures in the dimly lit confines of the Chapel Royal.