ALICE THANKS HER COUSIN FOR CONDOLENCES ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND ALICE (née Lady Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott, 1901-2004, Duchess of Gloucester, wife of George V’s son Henry)

Fine Autograph letter signed to Lady Mary WHITLEY (née Cambridge, 1924-1999, only child of the 2nd Marquess of Cambridge) thanking her for her “kind letter of sympathy. I must try & look in on your parents before long as we have not seen them for some while. It must be so frustrating for your Father being able to see so little. He is so wonderfully cheerful & such fun to meet and talk with...”, 2 sides 8vo., on crested paper, with original autograph envelope signed with initial, Barnwell Manor, Peterborough headed paper, 2nd July

In 1972, the Duchess's elder son, Prince William, was killed in a plane crash while participating in an amateur air show race. Her husband was in such poor health at the time of their son's death that the Duchess hesitated whether to tell him, later admitting in her memoirs that she did not but that he may have learned of William's death from television coverage. The Duke of Gloucester died on 10 June 1974 at the age of 74.

Item Date:  1974

Stock No:  42615      £225

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