A very royal family visit made by Queen Victoria

On 13 September 1843, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband
Prince Albert visited Belgium.




The visit



Their Royal Yacht brought the couple to Ostend. During this visit, the Queen
of the United Kingdom and her husband were officially received in Bruges,
Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp.


Ostend nowadays - a lot of differences
when Queen Victoria paid a visit there ... 


Of course the Queen and her husband visited uncle King Leopold I of Belgium
and his wife Queen Louise-Marie.




Waterloo



In these days the battlefield of Waterloo wasn't officially visited. King
Leopold I of Belgium didn't want that the ties between France and England
deteriorated. 

However in all silence, lord Aberdeen, the British minister of Foreign
Affairs, visited the battlefield of Waterloo. His younger brother had died there
in 1815.


The Return


In Antwerp the royal company embarked to their yacht to return to London.






Source pictures: Wikipedia

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