[Illustration: AGE 17.
_From a Photo. by Hansen, Copenhagen._]
[Illustration: AGE 19.
_From a Photo. by Bingham, Paris._]
[Illustration: AGE 22.
(With the DUKE OF YORK as a Baby.)
_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]
[Illustration: AGE 41.
_From a Photo. by Lafayette, Dublin._]
[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]
Our first portrait of the Princess of Wales was taken in her native city
nearly two years before her arrival in England; the second was taken at
the time of her marriage; the third when her second son, the present
Duke of York, was about a year old; and the fourth in her robes as
Doctor of Music of the Royal University of Ireland in 1885. The
difference in the fashion of the dresses in these portraits is striking,
but not more so than the beauty of the Princess.