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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 54

Documents
George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon
1855 (8 August) folio A.L.S. to Col. Phipps and marked "Private" in he writes, "Upon enquiry & reflexion I think I should have great difficulty in obeying Her Majesty’s orders & being on board the Yacht before it gets into Boulogne Harbour if I attempted the short passage by myself from Folkestone. Some complication would be sure to arise & I therefore write to you that it will be better for me to accompany Her Majesty from Osborne. We can communicate another time on particulars. " and signed "Clarendon". With contemporary translation into German and royal household receipt circular datestamp struck in blue. Written whilst he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.


This letter refers to the visit of Queen Victoria to France in 1855. Photo

George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon KG GCB PC (1800 – 1870) an English diplomat and statesman from the Villiers family.



In April 1855 Napoleon III and Eugénie went to England and were received by the Queen; in turn Victoria visited Paris, the first English monarch to do so in centuries.

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