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A Royal Christmas

How the Royal Family have celebrated Christmas over the centuries

MARCUS ADAMS (1875-1959)

Christmas card

1929

RCIN 2108306

This card, from 1929, features an intimate family portrait taken by society photographer Marcus Adams. It shows the Duke and Duchess of York and their three-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth of York (later Queen Elizabeth II). The future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth have signed the card simply ‘Bertie’ and ‘Elizabeth’.


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