GEORGE V & HIS FAMILY AT OSBORNE WITH QUEEN VICTORIA
GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of Great Britain), his Queen MARY (of Teck, 1867-1953)
Superb group photo signed by the Duke and Duchess of York and dated by the Duke
showing an informal gathering of the Royal Family in the garden at Osborne in 1898, signed “George 1899”, and “Victoria Mary”, Queen Victoria is seated in the centre at a table and the others are gathered seated and standing around her including the Battenbergs and the Connaughts, image10” x 6” in fine gilt frame 16” x 11”, Osborne, 3rd September
Item Date:
1898
Stock No:
32630
£2250
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GEORGE V & HIS SONS
[GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of Great Britain), with his three sons</b>EDWARD VIII</b> (1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor), GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain), & HENRY (1900-1974, Duke of Gloucester)]
Superb large unsigned press photo,
showing the King and his sons standing together in a line, dressed in naval uniform, resting their hands on their swords, 12" x 10", Spithead, Portsmouth, 17th July
Item Date:
1933
Stock No:
28043
£225
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THE NEW KING ANNOUNCES THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER EDWARD VII
GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of Great Britain) and Edward GREY (1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, 1862-1933, Liberal Statesman, Longest Serving Foreign Secretary 1905-1916, Ornithologist)
Finely clerk written document signed at the foot, countersigned by Edward GREYaddressed to the President of the Republic of Cuba, José Miguel GÓMEZ
(1858-1921, Cuban Politician and Revolutionary, leader of the Rebel Forces in the Cuban War of Independence, President from 1909 to 1913) sending greetings to "Our Good Friend! It is with the deepest affliction that We announce to You the decease of Our Most Honoured and Beloved Father, His Majesty King Edward VII of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, of Blessed Memory, whom it pleased God to call from this world on the evening of the sixth ultimo, at a quarter to twelve o'clock, in the Tenth Year of His Reign. We communicate to You this mournful event, feeling convinced that you will participate in Our grief and in that of all Our subjects, for the loss of a Sovereign so justly esteemed and revered. In acquainting you at the same time with Our Accession to the Throne. We assure You that it will ever be Our most earnest desire to cultivate and to maintain the relations of Friendship and good understanding which so happily subsist between the two Countries, and that it will always affords Us the greatest pleasure to have fresh opportunity of proving the interest which We take in the welfare and prosperity of the Republic of Cuba. And so We commend you to the protection of the Almighty ...", 3 sides folio on black edged paper, Court at Saint James's, 20th June
lacking the black edging on the top side, the signatures somewhat faded
Item Date:
1910
Stock No:
41606
£1750
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SIGNED BY THE MONARCH AND HIS PRIME MINISTER
GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of England) & Stanley BALDWIN (1867-1947, Prime Minister)
Fine formal letter on behalf of the Prime Minister to the Monarch, with the King's autograph "appd G.R.I." at the head, and at the foot "Stanley Baldwin"
saying that he, "with his humble duty to the King respectfully recommends to His Majesty the appointment of the Reverend Tom Tilleard Haines ... Vicar of St James the Greater ... to the Vicarage of St John, Cinderford, to become vacant as the result of exchange of Livings between the Reverend Tom Tilleard Haines ... and the Reverend Cuthbert Paul Gliddon, Vicar of St. John, Cinderford ...", 1 side 4to., 10 Downing St headed paper with 'Prime Minister' stamp, 13th June
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
40727
£375
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SIGNED BY THE MONARCH AND MACDONALD IN PLACE OF HIS PRIME MINISTER
GEORGE V
(1865-1936, King of Great Britain) & James Ramsay MACDONALD (1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Fine formal letter from the Prime Minister to the Monarch, with the King's autograph "appd G.R.I." and at the foot "J. Ramsay Macdonald"
saying that in "the absence of the Prime Minister, the Lord President of the Council, with his humble duty to the King, respectfully recommends to Your Majesty the appointment of the Reverend Herbert Woodford Orton ... Vicar of All Hallows, Southwark, to the Vicarage of St George, Truro, vacant by the resignation of the Reverend Albert Palmer ...", 1 side 4to., 10 Downing Street headed paper, with the Prime Minister's stamp, 20th August
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
40731
£525
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