Orders, Decorations and Medals

Visit of Her Majesty the Queen to St. Paul’s Cathedral Medal 1872, with the reverse inscription. ‘National Thanksgiving for the Recovery of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, Feb. XXVII’, 38 x 18mm., silver, extremely fine, scarce £70-90

In the Winter of 1871 the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) contracted Typhoid, the disease that had killed his father, Prince Albert, ten years previously. His recovery from the illness was greeted with widespread relief.