THE MARINES’ TERCENTENARY REVIEW
[ELIZABETH II
(1926-2022, Longest Serving Monarch of Great Britain)]
Programme of the Royal Marines Review by the Queen
to celebrate three hundred years since their formation in 1664, the Duke of Edinburgh, Captain General, having directed that “Her Majesty should be shown the Corps in its modern setting”, with a simple but impressive description of the Parade with four Colour Parties, the Display Party, including “Snow Warfare Section... Cliff Climbers with Equipment... “, and the Static Display, including inflatable craft, a helicopter “with underslung load” and “a ¼ ton line laying vehicle”, the ceremony, the music for which the Marines are famous, and a history of the Corps and its badge of the Globe and Laurel, gilt embossed badge on front cover, name replacement slip loosely inserted, 4 sides in covers 9½” x 7”, Buckingham Palace, 23rd July
Item Date:
1964
Stock No:
53271
£35
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[ELIZABETH II
(1926-2022, Longest Serving Monarch of Great Britain) & PHILIP (Duke of Edinburgh, 1921-2021, her Husband)]
Service of Thanksgiving for their 25th Wedding Anniversary,
finely printed in black and red, with the hymns and prayers, the organ music includes Walton’s ‘Crown Imperial’, 16 sides in covers printed in silver and gold 11” x 8½”, Westminster Abbey, 20th November
faint crease in blank top outer corners of covers
Item Date:
1972
Stock No:
53895
£75
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[ELIZABETH II
(1926-2022, Longest Serving Monarch of Great Britain)]
Souvenir Programme at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children,
for the Grand Symphony Concert and Presentation of Purses by local fund raisers, attractive photograph on cover by Dorothy Wilding of Princess Elizabeth, half length in uniform, three quarter face, many interesting advertisements including one by R. Fry & Co., looking forward to “when ‘branded’ soft drinks can be made again”, three pages of Purse Donors as received to date, the soloist is Ida Haendel with the Southern Concert Orchestra under Herbert Menges, 20 sides in covers 8½” x 5½”, The Dome, Brighton, 4th December
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
53259
£20
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THE QUEEN’S SILVER JUBILEE
[ELIZABETH II
(1926-2022, Longest Serving Monarch of Great Britain)]
Ceremonial for the Thanksgiving Service for her Silver Jubilee,
from Buckingham Palace to St Paul’s and back on foot to Guildhall, with full descriptions of Royal family procession (six carriages), the Queen Mother’s (two carriages) and the Queen’s (four State coaches and the State Landau), the ceremony at Temple Bar, the arrival at St Paul’s, the additional processions there of the Clergy, the Speaker, the Lord Chancellor, and the Orders of Chivalry, the service itself, and the same processions on departure, the car processions to Guildhall, however this is a City as well as national occasion and the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh walk there with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, stopping to meet members of Livery Companies, Aldermen when they cross a Ward boundary, at Bow church the rector presents the Queen with a silver replica of the Great Bell, there follow lunch at Guildhall and the Queen’s reply to the Lord Mayor proposing her health, and so home, large Royal Arms on front cover, 32 sides 13” x 8”, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 7th June
Item Date:
1977
Stock No:
53216
£75
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[ELIZABETH II
(1926-2022, Longest Serving Monarch of Great Britain), her husband Prince PHILIP (1921-2021) and their children King CHARLES III (b. 1948, Former Prince of Wales), Princess ANNE (b. 1950), and her sister Princess MARGARET (1930-2002)]
Charming group of 3 unsigned snapshots
taken in Scotland, show them on a stage with Captain Iain Tennant (1919-2006) holding his accustomed shepherd’s crook, all except the Queen and her sister are in kilts, in the first Captain Tennant announces a winner, in the next a young boy comes forward to be congratulated by the Queen, and in the last a young girl, like the boy in kilt and dancing shoes, is congratulated by Princess Margaret, each 2½” x 3½”, no place, no date, circa
light traces on versos of former laying down
Item Date:
1954
Stock No:
55021
£175
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