Heneage Finch, 7th Earl of Aylesford, styled Lord Guernsey until 1871, and also known as Joseph Heneage Finch, was a British aristocrat and friend of the Prince of Wales. Finch enjoyed many outdoor pu
Joseph Heneage Finch, 7th Earl of Aylesford
The Aylesford family seat, Packington Hall in Warwickshire
The original Leamington station of the Great Western Railway, the site of Finch's thwarted attempt to greet Queen Victoria with his Yeomanry troop in 1874.
Major-General Henry Ponsonby (1825–1895), Private Secretary to Queen Victoria, whose intervention defused the situation at Leamington railway station
Alexandra of Denmark
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Alexandra of Denmark was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 22 January 1901 to 6 May 1910 as the wife of King Edward VII.
Heneage Finch, 7th Earl of Aylesford
…Finch had been presented by his father to Edward, Prince of Wales at a levée at St James's Palace on 19 June 1869. In 1874 Edward, Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra visited Packington Hall and were lavishly entertained. Finch may have borrowed a lot of money to fund his hospitality for the Royals and one later…
Portrait of Alexandra in 1913
Christian IX of Denmark with his wife and their six children, 1862. Left to right: Dagmar, Frederick, Valdemar, Christian IX, Queen Louise, Thyra, William, and Alexandra.
The Landing of Princess Alexandra at Gravesend, by Henry Nelson O'Neil
Princess Alexandra of Denmark and the Prince of Wales, 1863