Lady Maud Warrender Signed (1 results)

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten Letter and Two Photographs of Lady Maud Warrender the Wife of Vice-Admiral Sir George Warrender. The letter is to Tudor Graig discussing a meeting. The two original photograph have Lady Maud Warrender and Sir George Warrender dressed up to celebrate the centenary of the Battle of Waterloo. The other picture is of Lady Maud Warrender. Lady Maud Warrender. An aristocrat, lesbian, singer and influential patron of music, she trod the line between respectability and scandal. She married Sir George Warrender and was a personal friend of the composer Sir Edward Elgar and his wife. Quite by accident Lady Warrender is credited with the British royal family's change of name during World War I. At a private dinner party in Buckingham Palace, while chatting to King George VI she repeated some of the gossip occasioned by the dynastic name of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Queen Mary's descent from the royal family of Württemberg and the fact that the German Emperor was the King's first cousin: "Oh, I believe, sir, that rumours are going about that, because of your name, you're pro-German." It was said that the king went quite white and left soon afterwards. Vice-Admiral Sir George John Scott Warrender, 7th Baronet, KCB, KCVO (31 July 1860 - 8 January 1917) was a Royal Navy officer during World War I. Size is 255mm x 205mm and the photgraphs are 200mm x 145mm. Condition is good. Light age toning. Gum marks to the rear. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17706. Signed by Author(s).