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Auction: 18038 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 3078

Autographs
Victoria, Princess Royal
1891 cabinet photograph (taken in 1888 in Buckingham Palace) as Dowager Empress showing the princess wearing black in mourning for Emperor Frederick III who died in June 1888 and seated. Signed at foot "Victoria, Empress Frederick, Queen of Prussia, for Muriel, 1891". Mounted on the photographer's board which has been slightly trimmed at foot. An unusual photograph, another taken on the same day shows her with her mother, Queen Victoria, holding a photograph of her late husband Frederick. Photo

"Vicky" (1840 - 1901) was married to the Crown Prince of Prussia who ascended the throne in 1888 as Emperor Frederick III, but reigned for only 99 days, succumbing to throat cancer. Their son, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918 at the conclusion of World War I.

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