Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
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September 18
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1872 King Oscar II acceded to the throne of Sweden-Norway. He was King of Sweden from 1872 until his death and King of Norway from 1872 until 1905. The third son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Josephine of Leuchtenberg, he was a descendant of Gustav I of Sweden through his mother. In 1964 Greek king Constantine II married Danish princess Anne-Marie. He was the last King of the Hellenes, reigning from 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy in 1973.
OSCAR II (1829-1907, from 1872 King of Sweden) Letters Patent Signed, in Swedish with translation, appointing Karl Emil Ferdinand Ignatius, (b. 1837, Finnish Senator, Historian & Geographer), “Commander with Grand Cross of Our Order of the North Star, of which We ourselves are Master”, engraved with manuscript additions, wafer seal of the Order of the Seraphim bearing the 3 Crowns of Sweden and Collar of the Order, with a printed notice in Swedish, French and German about the return of the Order, 1 side 17½” x 11½” and conjugate blank, Stockholm Castle, 5th December 1906, tiny defect in blank lower right margin, short tears at creases of printed notice 16608
CONSTANTINE II (b. 1940, King of the Hellenes) & his wife ANNE-MARIE (b. 1946) Delightful original photo signed by both, “Tino” (his pet-name) and “Anna-Marie” under a photo of the couple seated on a sofa holding their infant son PAUL, (b. 1967), with another photo opposite of the baby’s christening, mounted together in a christmas card, each 6½” x 5” in folded card 9” x 7½”, with gilt and red crest on the front, no place, no date, 1967 14237
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