In addition to tableaux, some twelve plays were performed at Queen Victoria’s residences in 1893. One of these was A Scrap of Paper by the French playwright Victorien Sardou (1831­–1908), adapted by John Palgrave Simpson (1807­–87). The play featured Princesses Beatrice, Aribert of Anhalt and senior members of the queen’s household. The photograph shows the equerry Major Henry Charles Legge (1852–1924) playing the part of a naturalist called Brisemouche, who holds a large net with butterflies attached to his hat.