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VICTORIA, RUSSIA AND THE ROYAL FAMILY
Album of decorative Christmas and New Year cards kept by Miss M. Hope Robson, governess to the children of Louise Margaret Duchess of Connaught (in India) and Princess Victoria of Battenberg, mostly 1890s

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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VICTORIA, RUSSIA AND THE ROYAL FAMILY

Album of decorative Christmas and New Year cards kept by Miss M. Hope Robson, governess to the children of Louise Margaret Duchess of Connaught (in India) and Princess Victoria of Battenberg, comprising signed and inscribed cards by Queen Victoria (two, signed "VRI"), Princess Alix of Hesse (for 1892/3, when princess, and 1895/5, when Tsarina, both inscribed and signed "Alix"), Princess Alice of Battenberg (four), her sister Elisabeth of Hesse, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna (martyr and Russian Orthodox saint), and others, including Miss Robson's employers, contemporary green half calf, spine initialled 'M.H.P.', oblong folio, mostly 1890s

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'TO DEAR MISS ROBSON... FROM ALIX' – the last Empress of Russia, Queen Victoria, and others to a royal governess. Miss Robson had originally been employed in India by the Duchess of Connaught before returning home to look after the children of Louis and Victoria Battenberg, her most challenging charge being their seven-year-old daughter Alice, who was profoundly deaf. One of her cards, written shortly before her twelfth birthday, wishes Miss Robson a happy Christmas "from your (rude) Alice"; another, written at new year in 1899, is subscribed "from her now affectionate and repentant pupil Alice Battenberg". (Miss Robson's repentant pupil later became mother of the present Duke of Edinburgh, a Russian Orthodox nun and to be posthumously honoured as 'Righteous Among the Nations' for harbouring a Jewish family in occupied Athens.)

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