Christmas card, signed, for 1970

Queen ELIZABETH, the Queen Mother

About this Item

Single stiff card sheet, folded, 235 x 187mm, engraved with a gold crown. Exterior slightly spotted. Inscribed by the sender, "from Elizabeth R". Mounted inside the card is a black-and-white portrait, 197 x 151mm, of the Queen Mother posing serenely in a garden. The unnamed recipient of the card was Queen Elizabeth's old friend Lord David Cecil. As a boy, his Oxford friend A.L. Rowse recorded in Friends and Contemporaries (1989), Cecil "fancied himself in love with a neighbour, a charming girl from St Paul's Walden who was often at Hatfield, and became Queen as wife of George VI. They remained friends all through their long lives." Or, as Cecil's daughter Laura Hornak put it, "He used to play with Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He was six and she was slightly older. He said she was his first love.".

Seller Inventory # 31M100100

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Christmas card, signed, for 1970
• Binding: No Binding
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)