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The Queen Mother with Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret

In this library picture from 1935, as the Duchess of York, she makes a delighted arrival at London's Olympia for the Royal Tournament. With her, are her daughters, the nine year old Princess Elizabeth (right), now Queen Elizabeth II, and Princess Margaret Rose, who was in her fifth year. Issued in connection with the 80th birthday of The Queen Mother on 4 August 1980

ITN Reference: ROYAL/ELIZ/

Broadcast Date: 3 April 1980

Agency: Press Association

Photographs belonging to John T Priestley

Includes family photographs, children, holidays, pets
Hemsworth Grammar School prefects and cricket XI
St Paul's College overseas English group 1959 - 1960
Duke of Edinburgh visit 1957
Son Roger Priestley at school
St Paul's College students outside Rosehill hostel
St Paul's College sports teams
St Paul's College students at camp
Aerial photograph of Rosehill
St Paul's College student gymnastics
Exterior of St Paul's College
Christmas party
St Paul's College students outside The Air Balloon pub
Student work including a canoe

Photographers include Cheltenham Newspaper Company Limited; Donald Bott, Optipho Artist Photographers, Clarence Parade, Cheltenham; Raeburn Studios Limited, Pittville Gates, Cheltenham; Patrick T Bodey; Ralph Ashley Aerial Photography, 3 Lodge Street, Leeds

Priestley, John Thomas

Wallis Simpson

File portrait of Wallis Simpson made in 1936 prior to her marriage to the Duke of Windsor. The Duchess of Windsor, who was subsequently denied the title of "Royal Highness" died April 24 in Paris

Broadcast Date: 1986

Agency: Reuters

The life and times of the Duke of Windsor

A series of pictures depicting the life and times of the Duke of Windsor. The Duke, who is the eldest son of his late Majesty King George V, was born 23 June 1894. He ascended the throne as King Edward VIII in January 1936 and abdicated in December 1936. Six months later her married Mrs Wallis Warfield (formerly Simpson). Photo shows The Duke of Windsor (with stick) visiting slum areas in Southwark, London in 1936

Broadcast Date: 1 July 1987

Agency: Central Press Photos

The Duke and Duchess of York opening the coal shipping terminal, Jarrow Staith, on the River Tyne

Flashback to July 1936, when Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, then the Duchess of York, and accompanied by her husband, the Duke of York, later King George VI, opened the coal shipping terminal, Jarrow Staith, on the Tyne. When she opens the new Tyne terminal on Thursday 7 November she will operate the same switch as used at the previous ceremony 49 years ago. Obit

Broadcast Date: 7 November 1985

Agency: Press Association

Ex-King leaves Windsor castle

Caption 1: Former King Edward leaving Windsor castle after [?] his pathetic speech this evening with [?]. Caption 2: Last private drive was in December when the Duke left Windsor after his broadcast. Caption 3: Departure… A car hurried from Windsor Castle on a night sixteen years ago, taking an ex-king from his country

Agency: Popperfoto

Eleanor Farjeon - Rowland Watson Correspondence

Correspondence mainly from Eleanor Farjeon to Rowland Watson. Includes items she sent to Rowland including a typescript of an article she wrote for the Manchester Guardian on Edward Thomas in 1937, a handlist of collected works presented to Hampstead Public Libraries in 1960, newspaper clippings, typescript foreword to "The Green Roads" and "You Come Too", photocopy of chapter "My Latter Years" by Eleanor Farjeon from "The Book of Leisure" by John Pudney, typescript of "The White House at Flansham (Its Roots and Branches)", and a mounted black and white photograph of the memorial stone on the Shoulder of Mutton, Steep in 1949

King Edward VIII assassination attempt

Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips were both unhurt in last night's kidnap attempt by an armed gunman in The Mall, but four other people were shot and wounded. Attacks on members of the Royal Family have been rare, and until 1936 no attacks had been attempted for more than 30 years. It was in July 1936 the King Edward VIII escaped unhurt when a man in the crowd near Wellington Arch produced a revolver. The man, Patrick McMahon, was immediately disarmed, and is pictured here after his arrest

Broadcast Date: 21 March 1974

ITN Reference: ROYAL/WIND/37

Agency: Keystone Press Agency Limited

Newspaper cuttings regarding the steep memorial and plaque at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea

Includes letter written by John Haines regarding subscriptions to the Steep memorial published in the Gloucester Journal 4 April 1936, Features in The Times and Hampshire Observer reporting on memorial unveiling on the Shoulder of Mutton and at Berryfield Cottage with photograph, and a report in the News Chronicle on the unveiling of a plaque at 61 Shelgate Road, Battersea. Two articles mounted. With pencil annotations

Queen Mother, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

On 4 August 1980, The Queen Mother celebrates her 80th birthday. This 1936 library picture shows her as Queen Elizabeth with King George VI, after the abdication of Edward VIII and before their coronation of 12 May 1937. Sharing their car, their daughters, Princess ELizabeth (left) the present Queen, and Princess Margaret. Obit

Broadcast Date: 4 August 1980

Agency: Press Association

The Princess Royal

Princess Royal. The last Princess Royal, Princess Mary, King George V's only daughter, who died in March 1965. Buckingham Palace announced yesterday that Princess Anne is to be given the title "Princess Royal", a courtesy title which goes only to the eldest daughter of the sovereign as a mark of esteem

Agency: Press Association

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