Prince PhilipRoyal Household Mail. One ALS and two TLS ('Philip') with a Christmass card...
Prince Philip
Royal Household Mail. One ALS and two TLS ('Philip') with a Christmass card (signed 'Philip' and in Greek at the bottom) to Revd. H.M.S. Taylor, headmaster of Cheam School, which Philip attended as a boy, 1930-33. The earliest carries the letterhead Nrurs Palace, the home of his uncle the Grand Duke of Hesse, where he was for the wedding of one of his sisters. The second is Christmass greetings from Paris. The third is headed Spetzgart and dated 1933. By this time, Philip had changed schools to Schule Scholss Salem, which was owned by the family of his brother-in-law Bethold, Margrave of Baden. The letters display a charming innocence in their childish mispellings and interests and show a side of the Duke often forgotten against his modern public persona.
with a letter from Princess Louise of Battenburg to Mrs Taylor.