PRIVATE LETTERS AUCTIONED
WRITTEN BY MEMBERS OF ROYAL FAMILY. NOTHING SENSATIONAL. LONDON, January 29: A furore has been created in news., paper circles by the. receipt of a News Agency despatch from Berlin describing the auction of intimate letters, allegedly from King George, Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales tui relatives in Franc". Lord Claud Hamilton, the KSng* equerry, interviewed by the .Daily News at Buckingham. Palace, said itwas impossible offhand to decide whether the letters genuine, but it was exceedingly probabfo they were authentic. ■ "There i IS nothing wo can do," said Lord Hamilton, "If the letters were sold and paid for they are. now the purchasers' property. Wo are pow e r. less." The letters are, in, nowise sensational, being merely comments on current events and family affairs. The texts are not being published pending inquiries.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 28, 30 January 1929, Page 2
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139PRIVATE LETTERS AUCTIONED Stratford Evening Post, Issue 28, 30 January 1929, Page 2
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