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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April 25
On This Day
On this day in 1843 Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse was born. Queen Victoria's was the third child and second daughter she was the first of Queen Victoria's nine children to die. Princess Alice died, after nursing her children with typhoid, on the anniversary of Prince Albert’s death from the same illness.
1995 Ginger Rogers, American actress, dancer and singer (Top Hat, Stage Door), dies at the age of 83. She best was known for dance films in which she was partnered with Fred Astaire.
ALICE (Maud Mary, 1843-1878, Princess, Daughter of Queen Victoria, wife, 1862, of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse & mother of Alexandra Feodorovna)
Remarkable Pencil Drawing, signed with her monogram and titled by her, of her young brother Prince ARTHUR (1850-1942, Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada, ADC to every monarch from Victoria to George VI), showing him full length, full face, in uniform including his bearskin cap, striking his drum, by a tall tree and with a flock of birds in the distant sky, drawn with vigorous shading, a lovely picture which has caught his firm military gaze, on paper 9¼” x 7”, no place, no date, circa 1859, a few very light brown marks in bottom left corner
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