ROYAL TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICA

A presentation photograph album of the Royal Tour of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and the Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret, to South Africa, 1947, containing 450 sepia bromide print photographs, recording the people, places and events from the Royal Tour, neatly mounted as multiples to rectos and versos of 56 card leaves, neat white china ink dated captions to mounts, gilt-titled presentation page, ‘With the Compliments of the South African Railways Administration. Presented to the Lady Harlech as a Souvenir of the Royal Tour of South Africa, February-April 1947’, Contemporary calf spine with recent repairs and restoration, large oblong folio (35 x 48 cm).

Lady Harlech (Beatrice Edith Mildred Ormsby-Gore) was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother), Lady Harlech accompanied King George VI, the Queen, and the two young princesses—Elizabeth and Margaret—on their gruelling three-month marathon across the region.