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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 38

Documents
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
1835 (20 March) folio A.L.S. from St. James Palace, marked "Private" and is written, "My dear Lord. I regretted to hear you are confined to your home ..." and goes on to discuss various matters of politics during the final years of the reign of William IV, including the refusal of Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, to take up his appointed post of High Commissioner for Canada, devising schemes " ... but this can solely be effected by a positive order from the King". Also a later, mourning, envelope in Ernest Augustus’s hand, addressed to "S. A. R. Monsieur le Prince Albert de Saxe Coborg / Buckingham Palace, London" with black wax seal on the reverse. The letter with splitting along the fold and adherences on the reverse of the back page. Photo

Ernest Augustus I (1771 – 1851) was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death. He was the fifth son and eighth child of George III, who eleven years before Ernest's birth had inherited the thrones of two kingdoms, Great Britain and Ireland, and also that of the Electorate of Hanover, As a fifth son, initially Ernest seemed unlikely to become a monarch, but none of his elder brothers had any legitimate sons. Therefore, when in 1837 his niece, Victoria, became Queen of Britain and Ireland, ending the personal union between the British Isles and Hanover that had existed since 1714.

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