Lot 393
George IV
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Letter signed in French with autograph subscription "le Bon Frère George R" to the King of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand I, announcing the birth of a daughter to his brother and sister-in-law, the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, later William IV and Queen Adelaide, with envelope, 1 page, 4to, 11 December 1820; Wellesley, Arthur, 1st Duke of Wellington Invitation to dinner from Queen Victoria to the Duke of Wellington, printed card, 26 April 1849, with on the reverse, in the Duke's hand, "Will attend Her Majesty's Command" (2)
Footnote
Note: The Duke of Clarence married the Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen in the summer of 1818. In December 1820 Princess Adelaide gave birth to a daughter; the child died in March of the following year. Had the daughter survived, she, not Victoria, would have become Queen after William IV.