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GRAHAMSTOWN REFLECTED: PRESENTATION COPY TO HRH THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to.pp.159. ISBN:0958320659. From the Library of HRH The Duke of Gloucester; purchased by ourselves from Kensington Palace. Gift copy to HRH The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester: full-page inscription by hand in calligraphic script "St. John in South Africa was founded in 1883 in Grahamstown. This book marks the memorable Occasion of the visit of Their Royal Highnesses,The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, in November 1996 to the Eastern Cape." BOOK: copious colour and b/w historical photographs of Grahamstown, South Africa. Short history and essay on the arts and development of the town. Original publisher's laminated boards featuring a colour photographs of townsfolk and historical buildings. /Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester(b.1944) is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V and Queen Mary. He is currently 31st in line of succession to the British throne. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne, behind his first cousins Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, his father, and his elder brother Prince William of Gloucester.He practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, which he assumed in 1974. He married Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen in July 1972. /Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, was born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen in Odense, Denmark, 1946. She is the younger daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, and his wife, Vivian van Deurs. She was educated in Odense and Cambridge where she me her husband. Very good indeed. Nº de ref. del artículo: C83164

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