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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November 20
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1925 Queen Alexandra died at the age of at 80. She was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII. Her family had been relatively obscure until 1852, when her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin, Frederick VII, to the Danish throne. At the age of sixteen, she was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent of Queen Victoria.
In 1858 Selma Lagerlöf was born. She was a Swedish author and the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is best remembered for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils).
ALEXANDRA (of Denmark, 1844-1925, Queen of Edward VII)
Superb Imperial Cabinet photo signed and dated showing her full length, standing next to a chair with flowers on it, wearing an elaborate dress with a train and stars and a tiara and holding a fan, 12” x 7” in original carved wood easel frame with the date in it, 18” x 13”, no place, 1881
36339
LAGERLÖF (Selma, 1858-1940, Swedish writer of short stories, fairy tales and romances, Nobel Prizewinner, 1909)
Autograph postcard signed, in Swedish with translation, to Miss Mizi Franzos in Vienna, saying “Of course you may have my photograph” when next she orders some, she is not writing any short stories at the moment, but promises to send some when finished, she has seen “many kind reviews in the papers” about “the Legends”, though none by Langen, says “it would be gratifying if the financial returns were also satisfactory”, and thanks her warmly for “the fee that has just arrived”, 1 side postcard with border of posthorns and integral stamp, address on verso, Falun, Sweden, 31st October 1904,
51495
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