Genuine letters (mostly) from Britain‘s Queens & Kings & their relatives | Philatelic account of @peterhornung_hh | Fellow @the_rpsl #postboxsaturday
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I have my doubts – and I know I'm far from being alone. That's why I'm now asking questions. It concerns the alleged letter from the young Princess Elizabeth that was in the news recently. It sold for £25,000.
I'm not convinced it was written by Lilibet. And I haven't found any expert (apart from the ones of the auction house itself) who would say so.
hansonsauctioneers.co.uk/chi…
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"David and I enjoyed having you both with us enormously and we hope when you are next in Paris you will come and see this house"- 1957 letter of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor to Marion Lascelles, Countess of Harewood. "David" refers to her husband Edward, former #KingEdwardVIII.
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"To our trusty and welbeloved Ser Andrew Wyndesore, knight, keper of our great wardrope"- 1514 manuscript warrant addressed to Sir Andrew Windsor & signed "Henry R" by King Henry VIII. Windsor played a significant part in King Henry VIII's military expedition to France in 1513.
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"Maria Feodorovna", "Xenia Alexandrovna", "Prince Rostislav", "Prince Nikita", "prince Dimitri"- A letter sheet of HMS Marlborough dated April 1919 & bearing the signatures of the members of the Russian Imperial family evacuated from revolutionary Russia. alexanderpalace.org/palace/m…
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"The Rev. F. J. Stone, Virginia Water Cottage, Windsor Great Park, Berks"- 1941 cover addressed in the hand of Pss Elizabeth, later #QueenElizabethII, used for sending a Xmas card. Virginia Water is located at the southern edge of Windsor Great Park. windsorgreatpark.co.uk/explo…
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"I am so desperately sorry about all your worries"- 1965 letter of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to Marion Lascelles, Countess of Harewood. Mailed from Fairlawne Estate, Kent which was owned by Peter Cazalet, trainer of her racehorses. She was a childhood friend of his sister
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"The baby is flourishing and we all hope to go down to Windsor at the weekend to begin the holidays, and it will be lovely having a baby in the nursery again. Charles and Anne and Andrew are all thrilled"- 1964 letter of #QueenElizabethII after the birth of Prince Edward.
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"PORTSMOUTH SORTING CARRIAGE"- 1879 cover addressed in the hand of Albert Edward, #PrinceofWales, later #KingEdwardVII, and initialled "AE" in the lower left corner. Mail from the royal residence Osborne on the Isle of Wight was postmarked like this on the train to London.
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"We appreciate your interest in our lives with your collection of "Windsoriama" and are certainly flattered to know that we are still remembered in Britain, especially by your generation, the youth of to-day" 1968 letter of Edward, #DukeofWindsor, former #KingEdwardVIII.
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This is a postbox which is quite unique. A mail buoy of @bundeswehrInfo Feldpost in the naval base of #Eckernförde. It‘s only in use today for the German Day of the Armed Forces („Tag der Bundeswehr“). You can take a boat and mail your postcards there. #postboxsaturday
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"Thank you so much for the lovely game of “Cappit”. It is great fun"- 1956 letter of 8-year-old Charles, today #KingCharlesIII, to his his second cousin, David Lascelles. Cappit is the original British name for a classic board game, today Coppit (in German: Fang den Hut!).
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"His Majesty The King of Norway, His Majesty The King, H.R.H. The Crown Prince of Norway, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, H.R.H. The Duke of York, H.R.H. The Prince Henry"- 1925/1926 game card from #Sandringham of an illustrious group of royal hunters. fieldsports-journal.com/game…
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"We would love to stop by your ship this evening for cocktails- Is eight o'clock too late?" Letter of Princess Grace of Monaco to American socialite Brooke Astor. The letter was obviously carried by courier to the Astor's yacht in the port of Monaco.
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"I do not have any money (some time ago I put $65 aside for you for such an eventuality, but had to put it into the business at a difficult time)." 1950 letter of Prince Nikita Nikitich Romanov to his brother Alexander. He was a great nephew of tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
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"I shall most certainly decline the invitation with all possible civility to the Lord Mayor and the City, with whom I hope to be in good friendship"- 1815 letter of Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. She was Britain's longest-serving queen consort, serving for 57 years.
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"E" for "Edward"- 1938 cover sent by the #DukeofWindsor aka #KingEdwardVIII to Bernard Rickatson-Hatt, Reuters chief editor 1932-1941, a man who had a special relation to the former king and his wife. thebaron.info/archives/ultra…
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"Examined by C(orporal of) H(orse) K. R. Freeman (Duty Oderly)"- Registered letter from the Governor General of Saint Lucia to Sir Philip Moore, Private Secretary to HM The Queen, at #BuckinghamPalace. Letters like this were regularly checked before delivered in the palace.
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"I was horrified to get your letter with its dreadful news - what can I say?"- 1967 letter of Princess Margaret to her friend Vera Russell née Poliakoff who was married to famous artic critic John Russell CBE. No clue what kind of tragedy the princess is refering to.
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"It was a great pleasure to me to meet the Queen and Prince Albert and to see them so well received wherever they went"- 1843 letter of Adelaide, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover (1830-37) as the wife of King William IV.
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"I thought I had better write and ask you what you would like for your birthday." 1938 letter of Mary, Princess Royal to her son George Lascelles, later 7th Earl of Harewood. He served as a Page of Honour at the coronation of his uncle #KingGeorgeVI in May 1937.
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And here's Fergus Bowes Lyon, the Queen Mother's brother, on the memorial in the church at St Pauls Walden on the BL's estate. A Captain in his family's regiment, the Black Watch, Fergus was killed in 1915, leaving his widow with a 2mth old daughter. #Royals #RoyalFamily #WWI
"Fergus was a very special son...we used to talk together for hours." 1915 letter of Cecilia Nina Bowes-Lyon (1862-1938), Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, maternal grandmother of #QueenElizabethII. Her son Fergus was killed during World War I.
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