"Their Majesties and the Light Cure: King Edward and Queen Alexandra Visiting Patients in the Finsen Light Room at the London Hospital."Hansen, Bert, 1944-1903 June 20engIllustrated London News, center, page 950-951. Drawn by A. Forestier, caption notes the royals visited on June 11 to open a new wing and a new Finsen Light Room. "Of the Danish physician's method of curing lupus, the Queen is the patron and pioneer in England. Her majesty presented the first lamp to the London Hospital in 1900." Two aspects of interest are Finsen Light's popularity at the time and a further transformation of the long tradition of the royal touch. Here it's their patronage of science and their funding that does the healing, but it's still their touch. Is this a change from or a continuity with royalty's appearances at cholera hospitals, where there was little therapy, beyond calming down a frightened public by gestures like these? Also see Image #1939. Hansen database #147.