Group portrait of the Royal party and naval officers aboard the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS ...

Accession Number P03717.008
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Ellis, R
Place made Malta
Date made 1927
Conflict Period 1920-1929
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of the Royal party and naval officers aboard the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Renown, during a Royal tour that took in Australia, New Zealand and several other countries. The photograph is inscribed 'Albert and Elizabeth, 1927'. Identified left to right (back row): unidentified naval captain; unidentified army officer; unidentified naval lieutenant commander; three unidentified army officers; unidentified naval commander. Front row: unidentified, probably a lady in waiting; His Royal Highness Albert George, the Duke of York, wearing a naval captain's uniform (the Duke served in the Royal Navy during the First World War); Her Royal Highness Elizabeth, Duchess of York; unidentified, possibly a lady in waiting or the wife of one of the officers. The Army officers would have been aides to the Duke.

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