Lot n° 181
Estimation :
300 - 500
EUR
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Result
: 455EUR
MARIE-AMÉLIE, princesse de Bourbon-Siciles, reine des França - Lot 181
MARIE-AMÉLIE, princesse de Bourbon-Siciles, reine des Français (1782-1866)
L.A.S.: "Marie Amélie", Eu, September 1, 1843, addressed to her cousin Prince Ferdinand de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (1785-1851), father-in-law of Princess Clémentine, 1 1/2 pages, on headed paper with his monogram under royal crown, text in French, creases, but overall good condition. "Counting on the kindness and friendship you have shown me, I am writing you these lines for (...) our children if they do not arrive with you as soon as you expected them and as they will have wished. We have been expecting a visit (...) from the Queen of England for a few days, and we are very touched, to make this stay more pleasant for her, we have wished for Louise and Clémentine's presence that she (...) and she herself knew the best thing, Clémentine and Auguste have felt it and have resigned themselves to wait for her, but I am sure that you (...) like you that he (...) everything towards Queen Victoria, that towards the King. If they were to leave here while she's still here, and I know your feelings well enough to think we wouldn't want them to. I don't need to tell you that despite all the tenderness we have for our beloved daughter, we are the first to want her to follow her wishes and be eager to go to the august family who have adopted her and who are so kind (...)....) please remember me to the Duke your august brother, to the Duke and Duchess Ernest and to Prince Leopold, and accept for ourselves the expression of the sincere friendship with which I am Monseigneur of Your Royal Highness' dear cousin".
History: This letter was written on September 1, 1843, the evening before the arrival of Queen Victoria, who was visiting France from September 2 to 7, 1843. This historic event took place at the Château d'Eu in Normandy. It was the first official visit under the "entente cordiale" between France and England. Victoria was the first English monarch to visit France since her distant ancestor, King Henry VIII, in 1520. To immortalize the event, court painter Franz-Xaver Winterhalter painted a magnificent picture in 1845. The scene in the painting takes place in the Victoria Gallery, named in honor of the sovereign, at the Château d'Eu. She describes it in her diary (September 8, 1845): "it is a very pretty room, full of pictures showing scenes of our last stay here, and of the King's visit to Windsor". Indeed, one of the large canvases on the left wall depicts Louis-Philippe's reception at Windsor. In the painting, entitled "Queen Victoria and Prince Albert received by Louis-Philippe and his family at Château d'Eu", in addition to members of the d'Orléans family, Princess Clementine appears in the right foreground, holding her newborn son, Auguste, on her lap, and tenderly wrapping her left arm around the eldest, little Philippe.
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