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PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT. Photograph SIGNED.
Prince of the United Kingdom. Grandson of Queen Victoria. Son of Arthur Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. He was married to Princess Alexandra Duchess of Fife. Arthur was Governor-General of South Africa from 1920 to 1924.
Photograph, signed on mount opposite image. The photograph by Kay Wrightson shows Prince Arthur three-quarter-length in the full dress uniform of the colonel in Chief of the Royal Scots Greys.
Aprox 15.5 x 9.5 cms (including mount). Fine.
Prince Arthur of Connaught was educated at Sandhurst and saw action in the Boer War as a young officer in the 7th Hussars. During the First World War, as a captain in the Greys, he served in France as aide-de-camp to successive commanders of the British Expeditionary Force, John French and Douglas Haig.
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