| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Ian Radforth. Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 469. Cloth $75.00, paper $39.95.
In July 1860, the eighteen-year-old Prince of Wales sailed from Plymouth for a five-month tour of Canada and the United States. The Canadian legislature had made an official request for a visit by Queen Victoria in 1859: unable to make such a trip herself, Victoria was nevertheless keen to satisfy the request. Prince Edward thus found himself following the pattern of royal duties established by his parents, who had made a successful habit of similar civic tours within Britain in the 1840s and 1850s. Ian Radforth's book is an extensively researched examination of the prince's tour, focusing on the different responses by local communities to their distinguished visitor.	1
The prince's tour created enormous public interest: local committees did their utmost to decorate their cities, and Edward was invariably met by large, cheering crowds. At Toronto, 50,000 people waited for his arrival, while a crowd of 20,000 crammed into a Chicago railway station to get a glimpse of the royal tourist. So extensive was the preparation that at various locations an odd group called the Calathumpians staged its own carnivalesque versions of the formal civic processions, mocking not so much the prince as the local efforts at pomp and circumstance.	. . .

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