Royalty
[EDWARD VIII
(1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor), & GEORGE VI (1895-1952, King of Great Britain)]
Unsigned Snapshot Photograph,
probably taken by their tutor Henry Hansell (1863-1935), showing them seated head and shoulders, full face, in their schoolroom, Prince Edward looks unusually amused, he is resting his fingers on top of an book to support his chin, Prince Albert (George VI) is holding an open book vertical on the table, a wall map of North America is in the background, 3½ x 3½, probably York Cottage, Sandringham, no date, circa
Item Date: 1902
Background
Henry Hansell accompanied Prince Edward to Magdalen, Oxford, in 1912, to oversee his progress. This snapshot must have come from an album in the Royal Household, probably Hansell's.
both faces and wall map indistinct from glare, traces of laying down by blank verso
Stock No. 54440