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EARL OF ATHLONE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 12/21/1947 - HFSID 167062

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".

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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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