ORIGINAL OLD POSTCARD.UNUSED.
H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES.
His Royal Highness Prince Edward, the eldest son of His Majesty King George, and Heir Apparent to the to the Throne,was born on June 23rd, 1894, and was created Prince of Wales on the occasion of his sixteenth birthday, the investiture taking place on July 13th, 1911, in Carnarvon Castle.
In Carnarvon was born, 1284, Edward II., the first son of an English monarch to bear the title of Prince of Wales.His Royal Heighness, who received two years' education and naval training on the “Britannia”,performed his first public ceremony at Dartmouth in March, 1911, when he returned to the Mayor and Corporation the silver oar which they had formerly held as a symbol of the rights associated with the Bailiwick of the Water of Dartmouth.
Raphael Tuck & Sons΄. “OILETTE” Postcard 9881.
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