THE KING ANNOUNCES THE DEATH OF HIS COUSIN GEORGE V (1865-1936, from 1910 King of Great Britain)

Finely typed document signed, in English, to the Provisional President of Peru, General Oscar Raimundo Benavides, (1876-1946, President 1914-1915 & 1933-1939), announcing "with deep sorrow ... the death of ... the Prince Maurice Victor Donald of Battenburg, son of Our dear Aunt ... the Princess Henry of Battenberg ... killed in action on the 27th. of October ... in his Twenty-fourth year", confident the President will "share with Us the grief ... tempered ... with the knowledge that the late Prince died in the service of his country", signed also by Sir Edward Grey, (1862-1933, 1st Viscount, Foreign Secretary 1905-1916), fine printed royal titles with royal arms, 2 conjugate sides 14" x 8¼" black-edged, Buckingham Palace, 30th November two neat filing holes in blank margin



Item Date:  1914

Stock No:  52374      £775

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