EARL OF ATHLONE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 12/21/1947 - HFSID 167062
Price: $320.00
EARL OF ATHLONE. ALS: "Athlone.", 2p, 6¼x5½, front and
verso. Kensington Palace, 1947 December 21. On imprinted Brantridge Park,
Balcombe, Sussex letterhead (crossed off) to "Dear Mr. Dean". In
full: "I greatly appreciated your letter in regard to the collection
taken in the Abbey towards the Queen's Nurses Pension Fund. The amount was taken
very largely in pennies most likely due to a lack of pressing our Appeal. It was
most kind all the same, by as it is not my concern. With all good wishes for
Christmas and the New Year from my wife and myself. Yours sincerely". Major
General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl
of Athlone (1874-1957), was born His Serene Highness Prince Alexander of
Teck. The son of Prince Francis, Duke of Teck, and the younger
brother of Queen Mary, Alexander renounced his German title during WWI, and
he was created Earl of Athlone in 1917 (the title became extinct at his
death). Alexander, who saw service with the 7th Hussars (1894), in the Boer War
(1898-1901) and in WWI, was later appointed Governor-General of South
Africa (1924-1931) and Governor-General of Canada (1940-1946), during
which time he hosted the Quebec Conferences in 1943 and 1944. He
returned to England in 1946, the year before he wrote this letter, and retired
at Kensington Palace. Alexander, who witnessed the coronation of his
great-niece, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953, had married Princes Alice of
Albany (1883-1981), a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, on February
10, 1904. The couple had two children. Lightly creased with fold, horizontal
fold at the upper portions of the "A", "t", "h" and "l" of signature. Light
paper clip impression and rust stain at upper left blank margin, light ink stain
at lower blank margin. Fine condition.
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