Collection of material relating to the Prince's tour on HMS Repulse 1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)
Publication date: 1925
- Signed
- Used
Seller: Sophie Dupre ABA ILAB PADA, Calne, United KingdomSophie Dupre ABA ILAB PADA
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comprising a programme signed "Edward P" and members of the crew for the performance of "The Bathroom Door A Farce in One Act", in which the Prince played "The Young Lady" with two photographs of the Prince in a wig and kimono with members of the cast, each 8" x 6" and another photo of the Prince in a boiler suit, 5" x 4", and three printed leaflets, the first "HRH The Prince of Wales' Cruise on board HMS Repulse" listing the ports and the dates and the total distance of 18,950 miles, the second detailing the "Crossing the Line Procedure" giving a script with lines for the Captain, Neptune and Dolphinus and the last one is a Proclamation headed "Neptune by the Grace of Mythology, Lord of the Seven Seas, King of all the Water." declaring that "it has pleased Us to convene a Court to be holden on board His Britannic Majesty's Ship 'Repulse' on the 23rd day of April. by these presents We summon you. to render to Us the usual homage and to be initiated in the Mystic Rites.", given at "Our Court on the Equator" together with a long manuscript and typed account of. the part of the voyage leading up to and after the celebrations on crossing the Equator by Lieutenant Commander G. A. Youle, 11 sides 4to., manuscript and 19 typed sides A4 March and April "The Bathroom Door. A Farce in One Act" is a play written by Gertrude E. Jennings in 1916. In it a prima donna, a young man, an old man, an old lady, and a young lady are all trying to get into a bathroom in a hotel. The door will not open, and at last the prima donna declares that her husband, with whom she has had a quarrel, must have locked himself in the bathroom and done away with himself. HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. The future King Edward VIII was a passenger on the battlecruiser during a royal tour in the 1920s. Lieutenant Commander G. A. Youle was an officer who served aboard the ship. It was famously sunk by Japanese air attack on December 10th 1941, off the coast of Malaya, an event that resulted in the loss of 840 men.…
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- Title
- Collection of material relating to the Prince's tour on HMS Repulse 1894-1972, King of Great Britain, Later the Duke of Windsor)
- Author
- EDWARD VIII
- Publication year
- 1925
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Seller catalogs
- Royalty
Sophie Dupre ABA ILAB PADA
Calne, United Kingdom
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