Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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May 02
On This Day
On this day in 1906 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dismissed his moderate Prime Minister Witte and appointed Ivan Goremykin, a conservative bureaucrat. Nicholas initially had a good relationship with him but Alexandra distrusted him as he had instigated an investigation of Grigori Rasputin.
In 1816 Léopold of Saxe-Coburg, 1st King of Belgium following independence from the Netherlands married Princess Charlotte Augusta. Charlotte was the only legitimate child of the Prince Regent (later King George IV). Her death in childbirth sent the Royal succession into a tailspin that ended with Queen Victoria becoming Queen.
NICHOLAS II (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia from 1894, Assassinated after the Revolution)
Autograph Letter Signed ‘Niki’ in Russian with translation, saying he has known “Klushin for a long time and well. Let him know that I grant his request (point 3)”, Nicholas does “not need to write anything to him, help will be given”, bearing the Tsar’s crowned monogram ‘N[ikolai] A[lexandrovich]’ in gold and red, 1 side 8vo. and conjugate blank, Tsarskoe Seló, 16th January (Russian calendar, 29th Western) 1908, in fine condition
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LÉOPOLD I ANNOUNCES THE BIRTH OF HIS FIRST GRANDSON
LÉOPOLD I (1790-1865, uncle of Queen Victoria, from 1831 King of the Belgians)
Finely penned Document signed, in French with translation, to the President of Peru, (Ramón Castilla, 1797-1867, President 1845-1851 & 1855-1862), announcing the birth of his first grandson Léopold, Count of Hainaut, son of the Duke and Duchess of Brabant (Léopold II and Marie Henriette, Princess of Austria), “with extreme joy, in which the whole Belgian people join ... This event so ardently desired and which is the object of such lively and general fellow feeling, is of the most serious interest for my Royal house and for the future of the nation whose destiny has been committed to me”, in which he is sure the President will join, 1 side folio and conjugate blank, Brussels, 18th June 1859
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