Group of Grooms with Webster, the Pony, The Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace Daguerreotype, 1848 The Royal Collection |
In 1848, Queen Victoria visited the Royal mews at Buckingham Palace when a now unknown photographer took five images of the grooms and animals therein. Of the five, only two survive. This is one of them. We can see that Her Majesty employed an army of grooms to care of the Royal horses, and, of course, Webster, the Royal Pony, who is seen here in his only known photograph.
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