The preparation of the expedition at the end of August was marred by a bitter rivalry between the two king's eldest son, the Prince Ferdinand Philippe and the Prince Louis, who both vied for the honor to participate: the first considered that, as the senior, it was his right, while the second, who participated in the unsuccessful expedition of the previous year, was keen to avenge this humiliation.
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Visitors included the Prince of Wales, the German statesman Otto von Bismarck, Prince Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, the Austrian general Julius Jacob von Haynau, who was attacked by draymen while touring the brewery in 1850, and the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1864.
After the marriage of her older sister, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria to 1861 to the Neapolitan Prince Luis of the Two Sicilies, her parents then looked for a suitable husband for Sophie Charlotte.
The occasion of his marriage in 1840 with Victoria was marked by a check to Louis-Philippe's government in the form of a refusal to bestow the marriage dowry proposed by Adolphe Thiers in the Chamber of Deputies.