Vintage Chicago Tribune: When a young Prince of Wales — the great-great grandfather of King Charles — visited the city in 1860

Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, became the first member of British royalty to visit the United States in 1860. The invitation for the 18-year-old prince, who was touring Canada at the time, came from the top — President James Buchanan. “I need not say how happy I should be to give him a cordial welcome to Washington,” the 15th president of the United States wrote in a June 4, 1860 letter to the prince’s mother, Queen Victoria. (Eleven years later, the queen sent a biography of her late husband, Prince...