Louisa Wade

[1] She became the head of the Royal School of Needlework after Welby named her as a temporary replacement and then decided to retire later the same year in 1874.

Welby decided that the current management was amateur, and she proposed that John Aldam Heaton should replace her.

However the school's president and vice-president, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein and Lady Marian Alford supported Wade and she was appointed.

"Lily" Higgin became her assistant secretary and worked with Marian Alford to create the school's first technical guidebook.

His sister Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein was still President of the school and she persuaded her brother, the new King, to commission a mantle that was, not as expected from figured brocade, but to have one made of plain gold cloth.