CHRISTENING PHOTO OF PRINCE GEORGE GEORGE (William, Prince of Hanover, 1915-2006, 2nd eldest son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, brother-in-law of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) and his wife Princess SOPHIE (of Greece and Denmark, 1914-2001, Youngest daughter of Prince Andrew of Greece, elder sister of Prince Philip)

Fine Photo signed by both with the children named by the Princess showing the family with the Princess seated with the infant Georg in her lap in his Christening Robe, with Prince Welf standing with his father behind them, 4½" x 3½", no place,

This was Sophie's second marriage to her second cousin through Christian IX and third cousin through Victoria. George was a younger son of Ernest Augustus III, Duke of Brunswick, who lost his duchy in 1918, and his consort, Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, the only daughter of Wilhelm II, German Emperor. Their elder children were Prince Welf Ernst of Hanover (1947-1981) and Prince Georg of Hanover (born 9 December 1949).
Sophie's marriage to George William constitutes the only known case of permission to marry being withheld by the British sovereign from a descendant of King George II, who had been obliged by the Royal Marriages Act 1772 to apply for royal consent to marry.Although permission to marry had been granted by George VI in 1937 to George William's sister, Frederica of Hanover, future Queen of the Hellenes, when Sophie became engaged to George William, a German citizen, in 1945, the United Kingdom was at war with Germany.

Item Date:  1950

Stock No:  40418      £375

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