Marcus Adams (1875-1959)
Queen Mary with Princess Elizabeth of York, March 1927 Mar 1927
Modern print from original glass plate negative | 20.2 x 15.3 cm (modern print from original glass plate negative) (image) | RCIN 2999929
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Photograph showing Queen Mary seated, facing the viewer and holding the infant Princess Elizabeth of York aged approximately one year (later Queen Elizabeth II). Princess Elizabeth faces three-quarters left. Modern print from the original glass plate negative.
This portrait may have been amongst those taken for (and sent to) the Duke and Duchess of York while they were in Australia in the first half of 1927, to record the progress their daughter was making. During her parents’ absence, the Princess was entrusted to her grandparents, spending half the time at St Paul’s Walden in Hertfordshire with Lord and Lady Strathmore, and the remainder at Buckingham Palace with King George V and Queen Mary.
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Commissioned by Queen Mary for the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth)
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Modern print from original glass plate negative
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20.2 x 15.3 cm (modern print from original glass plate negative) (image)
21.6 x 16.5 cm (image)
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HM Queen Mary with HRH Princess Elizabeth of York, March 1927
