Photos of the British royal tour of South Africa, 1860

[Geoff Barker]

The Queen’s second son, fifteen-year-old Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the first royal to tour to the colonies on this side of the globe, he steamed out from England on board HMS Euryalus, in 1860, bound for the Cape Colony in South Africa. This Royal Tour has a special significance for the State Library of New South Wales. Rare photographs of the tour were collected by a young navy Lieutenant, Arthur Onslow, who, while returning from Australia, passed through Cape Town after the Prince’s tour and his photographs are now held in the Library as part of the Macarthur family collections. In the image above we can see the young Prince (third from the right) with Governor Sir George Grey (fourth from the right) in outback South Africa. For more see https://wordpress.com/post/geoffbarker.wordpress.com/893