We, the President and Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, desire humbly to approach your Royal Highness with the expression of our dutiful and heartfelt congratulations on your Royal Highness's marriage.

Ever ready to rejoice at whatever affords a prospect of increased happiness to your Royal Highness, and a further security for the continued sway of a Royal House which has conferred on this realm so many benefits and blessings, we hail with especial interest and gratification the union of your Royal Highness with a daughter of an ancient nation, distinguished at all times for noble and generous qualities, and which holds a high place among the countries of Europe in literature and science; and above all, we regard it as an unspeakable boon that the Royal Lady whom we now welcome to our shores is endowed with all those virtues and attractions which are best calculated to bless and adorn domestic life, to assist in cheering the widowed solitude of our beloved Sovereign, and to sustain in unsullied lustre the honour and dignity of the British Court.