Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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April 04
On This Day
On this day in 1819 Queen Maria II of Portugal, "the Educator", was born. She was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves from 1826 to 1828 and again from 1834 to 1853. In 1953 Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), died at the age of 59. He was the first of the Hohenzollern kings of Romania to be born in the country.
CAROL II (1893-1953, King of Romania 1930-1940) and his second wife, 1921-1928, HELEN (1896-1982, eldest daughter of King Constantine II of the Hellenes) and Helen’s sister KATHERINE (1913-2007, Lady Katherine Brandram)
Fine Signed Portrait Photograph on their Wedding Day, he as Crown Prince in military uniform, his bride in a simple white dress but a gorgeous Romanian ‘Greek Key’ tiara, with her two bridesmaids, also in simple white dresses and chaplets, signed ‘Hélène’, ‘Carol’, and ‘Katherine’ as one of the bridesmaids, 10” x 7½”, no place but Athens, 10th March 1921
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MARIA II DA GLÓRIA (1819-1853, Queen of Portugal 1826-1828 and 1834-1853)
Fine letter in Portuguese with translation, signed ‘The Queen’, to Luigi Ciacchi, (1788-1865, Cardinal from 1838), lithographed with signature and addressee’s name added by hand, beginning with her titles “Dona Maria, By the Grace of God, Queen of Portugal and of the Algarves, of the Nearer and Further Sea, in Africa Lady of Guinea, and of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India etc.”, thanking him for his wishes “on the joyful occasion of the Birth of Christ Our Lord”, assuring him that she will not forget and will seek “repeated occasions to show how much I wish to be of use to you”, ending “May Our Lord keep your Person in His Holy care”, 1 side folio, address and embossed wafer seal on conjugate leaf of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry with the Royal Arms, Necessidades Palace, Lisbon, 31st January 1851
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