Queen Victoria careless a crowd gathers around and

a crowd gathers around and the Princess looks on from a window

Embossed lower left 'Bristol Paper'

Punch is making the point that the only confession that should be permitted in Britain should be that of a wife to her husband

following their investiture at Buckingham Palace

The setting is a theatre and the curtain is just about to rise

Queen Victoria careless a crowd gathers around andQueen Victoria, 1859. Victoria (1819 1901) succeeded her uncle, William IV, to the throne in 1837. Her reign, the longest of any British monarch to date, saw the peak of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of the British Empire into the world's pre eminent power.