FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of JUNE 6, Lord Chamberlain's Office, June 3, 1843. CEREMONIAL observed at the Baptism of Her Royal Highness Princess ALICE MAUD MARY, second Daughter of Her Most Excellent Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert, on Friday the 2d instant, in the Chapel within Buckingham Palace. THE Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, and others, invited to the Solemnity, assembled in the Old Dining Room, at Buckingham Palace, at twelve o'clock, and soon after their arrival were conducted to seats provided for them in the Chapel., The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Norwich (Clerk of the Closet), with the Dean of Carlisle (Rector of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square), the Honourable and Reverend Charles Leslie Courtenay (Domestic Chaplain to Her Majesty), the Archdeacon Wilberforce, and Lord Wriothesley Russell, Canon of Windsor (Chaplains to His Royal Highness Prince Albert), assembled in the room adjoining the Old Dining Room, and proceeded to the Chapel at one o'clock. The Visitors, having taken their seats, the Procession of the Sponsors for Her Royal Highness the Infant Princess was formed in the following order, viz. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Proxy for Her Serene Highness the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg. Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester. Ii 2 Followed by the Ladies and Gentlemen of their Suite, viz. Lady Anna Maria Dawson, in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. Lady Alicia Gordon, in waiting on the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester. Baron Bernstorff, in waiting on the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz. The Vice Chamberlain, Lord Ernest Bruce. Groom of the Stole to H. R. H. Prince Albert, Marquis of Exeter, K.G. Groom in Waiting Major-Gen. Sir Frederick Stovin, Lord in Waiting to the Queen, Earl of Hardwicke. THE QUEEN and His Royal Highness PRINCE ALBERT. H. R. H. The Crown Prince of Wurtemburg. The Queen Dowager. H. R. H. The Duchess of Gloucester. H. R. H. Princess Augusta Caroline of Cambridge. Master of the Horse, Earl of Jersey, G. C. H. Mistress of the Robes, Duchess of Buccleuch. Lady of the Bedchamber in Waiting, Countess of Mount Edgecumbe. Bedchamber Woman in Waiting, Countess of Sheffield, in Waiting, Ladies of the Bedchamber to Countess Brownlow, } the Queen Dowager. Honourable Anne Gore, Maid of Honour to the Queen Dowager. Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, Earl of Beverley. |