MARIA AMELIA
(1864-1951, Queen of Carlos I (1863-1909) from 1889 King of Portugal)
Letter in Portuguese with translation, signed 'The Queen',
to Lucien, Cardinal BONAPARTE, (1828-1895, grandson of Napoleon I's brother Lucien, and 4th Prince of Canino), lithographed with the Cardinal's surname and the place and date completed by hand, beginning with her titles "Dona Maria Amelia d'Orleans, 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.", and thanking him for "Your Eminence's Letter ... on the occasion of the festival of the Most Holy Nativity, and greatly obliged by your expressions of devotion, I beg Your Eminence to be assured of my lively thanks and of my sincere desire to be able to do you favour ... May Our Lord keep your person in His Holy Care", 1 side folio, address on conjugate leaf, Palace of Belem, 23rd January
tear in right margin touching two letters without loss, traces of papered seal on address side
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
14406
£245
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[MARIA CRISTINA
(Infanta of Spain, 1911-1996, younger daughter of Alfonso XIII, wife, 1940, of Enrico, Count Marone, 1895-1968)]
Fine portrait photograph, unsigned, by Bertram Park, signed in pencil by the photographer,
showing her seated, three quarter length, three quarter face, in a white short-sleeved dress, 8" x 6" on mount 16½" x 11¾", London no date. but
Item Date:
1922
Stock No:
36362
£275
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[MARIA CRISTINA
(Infanta of Spain, 1911-1996, younger daughter of Alfonso XIII, wife, 1940, of Enrico, Count Marone, 1895-1968)]
Fine portrait photograph, unsigned, by Bertram Park, signed in pencil by the photographer,
showing her half length, head turned full face, 8" x 5½" in folding window mount 16½" x 11¾", London no date, circa
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
51948
£275
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[MARIA CRISTINA
(Infanta of Spain, 1911-1996, younger daughter of Alfonso XIII, wife, 1940, of Enrico, Count Marone, 1895-1968)]
Fine portrait photograph, unsigned, by Elisabeth Popp, signed in pencil and dated by the photographer,
showing her seated, three quarter length, full face, in a fine white lace embroidered dress, 10" x 8", in mount 17" x 13", no place,
corners and two sides of mount a trifle creased or defective
Item Date:
1921
Stock No:
36363
£250
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MARIA CRISTINA ANNOUNCES THE DEATH OF HER UNCLE MONTPENSIER
MARIA CRISTINA
(1858-1929, née Archduchess of Austria, second wife of Alfonso XII and mother of Alfonso XIII, Queen Regent 1885-1902)
Finely penned Document signed, in Spanish with translation, to the President of Peru,
(General Andrés Avelino Cáceres, 1836-1923, President 1886-1890 and 1894-1895), informing him of the death of "My most beloved Uncle", (Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, 1824-1890, son of Louis Philippe I, who in 1846 married the Infanta Luisa, 1832-1897, daughter of Ferdinand VII, in one of the 'Spanish marriages' that reminded Europe of those arranged by Louis XIV, and became a naturalized Spaniard), referring to him as "so upright and respected a Prince", 1 side folio black-edged and conjugate blank, Madrid, 21st February
right margin a little worn, short closed tear in horizontal fold touching three letters without loss
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
52556
£425
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