Presentations in the Galerie des Guises of the Château d'Eu during the visit by Britain’

Presentations in the Galerie des Guises of the Château d'Eu during the visit by Britain’s Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to France in September 1843. An occasion that marked a historical spirit of reconciliation between the two countries, this was the first visit by a British monarch to France since the summit between Henry VIII and François I at the Field of the Cloth of Gold more than three hundred years earlier.

King Louis-Philippe stands beside Queen Victoria, who wears a red dress. Queen Marie-Amélie, in white, stands directly behind Victoria, with Prince Albert on her left. The watercolour by Eugène Lami was included in album gifted by the French sovereign to his British counterpart in commemoration of the successful visit.