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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November 09
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1841 Prince Albert Edward was born. He was the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward was related to royalty throughout Europe. Before his accession to the throne, he served as heir apparent and held the title of Prince of Wales for longer than any of his predecessors.
In 1940 Neville Chamberlain died at the age of 71. He was a Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. However, when Adolf Hitler later invaded Poland, the UK declared war on Germany and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of World War II.
EDWARD VII (1841-1910, King of Great Britain) & ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, his Queen)
Exceptional early cabinet photo signed by both and dated by the Prince of Wales, showing them standing together leaning against a wall, Alexandra is holding her husband’s arm, 6½” x 4”, Cowes, August 1872, framed and glazed
16204
CHAMBERLAIN (Neville, 1869-1940, Prime Minister)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear George’ telling his correspondent that he is leaving for “Aberdeenshire without having found any further opportunity to avail myself of your hospitable offer ... I should certainly have come again if I had not been fully occupied. The weather has been terribly unsettled and has no doubt diminished everyone’s bag ... I was shooting with Atholl yesterday. We got 83 brace but I believe if we had had a decent day we might well have got 120 brace. On Saturday I went with my son and another boy to one of Wentworth's lochs for the afternoon only. We had 2 in the boat & one fishing from the shore but as none of us had anything longer than gumboots we could not reach far enough to do much good ...”, 2 sides 4to., Perthshire, 4th September 1934
38065
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