Prince & Princes of Wales Marriage Address
1863

 

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{woven on silk:}

 
 
 
 
 

To her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
may it please your Royal Highness
We the Mayor Aldermen & Citizens of the city of
Coventry in council assembled beg to express to your
Royal Highness our warmest congratulations
upon your Royal Highness' Marriage with his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales.
We join with all our hearts in the general welcome
of your Royal Highness to this country, a welcome which
will have been to your Royal Highness the most grateful
proof of the satisfaction with which the august alliance
is everywhere regarded
We rejoice that while it renews an intimate connection
between the Royal Families of Denmark and England, it is
also hailed with enthusiasm by the people of both nations
a unison of feeling which cannot fail to promote the goodwill
and friendly intercourse so long subsisting between them
Our ardent prayer is that the event may be blessed
with abundant happiness to your Royal Highness
and the Prince, imparting joy to our beloved Queen
and wide-spread benefits to this Kingdom.
Given under our Common Seal the twenty-fourth
day of March in the year of our Lord MDCCCLXIII
Thomas Soden, Mayor
J. C. R.		R. E.

overall: 86.0cm long by 23.0cm wide

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Godden notes the existence of this ribbon on page 397.

Signed: " J. C. R. " which is assumed to be " JOHN CLEOPHAS RATLIFF ", the name Ratliff was known under before 1862.

The ribbon also has the initials " R.E. ", being the designer, but it is not know to whom this relates.

In " The Saturday Book, number 30 " Michael Darby discusses this ribbon, and notes the contentious history of its design. In the end, Ratliff was granted the weaving, although Darby said that in so doing, Ratliff employed the services of Holmes in the design (page 41). The weaving of the initials R.E. as the designer adds some confusion to Darby's statement.