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Auction: 24025 - Historical Documents Featuring the Major David Cecil Underwood Jr Collection of Royal Visits to India 1876-1906
Lot: 48

Great Britain
Coronation
King George VI
1937 Group of invitations and passes with their original envelopes. OHMS envelope with the cachet of the Earl Marshal and the official invitation to the Coronation, with a letter enclosing this, and the admission card to Westminster Abbey (4); Registered cover from the Lord Steward, Buckingham Palace (later date) with a Special Pass to the Rehearsal on 10 May for a member of the King's Bodyguard (2); OHMS envelope from the Earl Marshal to the Dowager Countess Brassy enclosing her admission ticket to the Abbey, notes regarding cars and the wearing Robes, with an invitation card from Mrs Stanley Baldwin to a Garden Party at Downing Street (11)

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