Christmas card, signed, for 1983

Queen ELIZABETH, the Queen Mother

Beschreibung

Single stiff card sheet, folded, 221 x 190mm, engraved with a gold crown. Exterior slightly spotted. Inscribed to Lord David Cecil by the sender (unusually, ad personam), "David from Elizabeth R"; on the lower board Cecil's elaborate manuscript notes, apparently on how to operate a radio. Mounted inside the card is a head-and-shoulders colour photograph, 165 x 152mm, of the Queen Mother in greeny-blue dress and, of course, pearls. As a boy, his Oxford friend A.L. Rowse recorded in Friends and Contemporaries (1989), Lord David Cecil "fancied himself in love with a neighbour, a charming girl from St Paul's Walden who was often at Hatfield, and became Queen as wife of George VI. They remained friends all through their long lives." Or, as Cecil's daughter Laura Hornak put it, "He used to play with Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He was six and she was slightly older. He said she was his first love.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers DC100104

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Christmas card, signed, for 1983

Einband: No Binding

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)