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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December 14
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1895 King George VI was born in the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria. He was named after his great-grandfather Albert, Prince Consort and known as Albert until his accession. As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward.
In 1947 Stanley Baldwin died at the age of 80. He was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars. Three times Prime Minister, he is the only premier to have served under three monarchs George V, Edward VIII and George VI.
PORTRAIT TAKEN AT THE TIME OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT
GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of England) & ELIZABETH (1900-2002, Queen of Great Britain)
Super original photo by C. Vandyk, signed on the mount by both - ‘Bertie’ & ‘Elizabeth’, and dated by the Duke of York, showing the young couple in informal clothes, he is perching on the edge of a table with his arms crossed and she is standing beside him in a simple dress and pearls, 8½” x 6½”, no place, 14th January 1923
34212
BALDWIN (Stanley, 1867-1947, Prime Minister)
Affectionate Autograph Letter Signed as Prime Minister to ‘My dear Mary’ (Butler) starting by saying that if he can’t “drop the ‘Miss Butler’ now I am sixty, well, what’s the good of being grown up? ...” apologising for “yesterday. I was coming over a year ago and was prevented by a lively abscess ... and I never wrote to tell you why I had let you down. So I was very chary about fixing a day, only meaning to come before I returned to London. I ought to have sent you a telegram. It was a great disappointment but I am only stimulated by failure and I shall try again ... I wanted your combined views on the Prayer Book. It would be fun if I could drive from Chequers at Easter: it would be a wonderful drive ...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 10 Downing Street headed paper, 10th January 1928,
38693
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