‘Early Photographs of the Middle East’ exhibited in The Queen's Gallery

LONDON, Nov. 27 (People's Daily Online) —— From November 2014 to February 2015, The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace holds exhibition ‘Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East’. This exhibition follows the journey taken by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in 1862, as he undertook a four month tour around the Middle East.

All the precious photographs, along with objects that the Prince brought back from his travels explore the cultural and political significance Victorian Britain attached to the region, which was then as complex and contested as it remains today.

The tour took the Prince to Egypt, Palestine and the Holy Land, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece where he met rulers, politicians and other notable figures.