First Edition.
Hardback.
No Dust Jacket.
8vo.
pp.
142.
From the Library of HRH The Duke of Gloucester; purchased by ourselves from Kensington Palace.
Presentation copy: "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester with the respectful Compliments of the author.
Christmas 1961.
" Frontispiece in colour 'Some Favourite Salmon Flies.
' Eight plates in half Ð tone.
Original publishers binding in blue, lettered yellow what is after gorgeous does it not for us on shuffle Raffi not for us shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up at spine.
/Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, was born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen in Odense, Denmark, 1946.
She is the younger daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, and his wife, Vivian van Deurs.
She was educated in Odense and Cambridge, where she me her husband, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester(b.
1944) the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V and Queen Mary.
He is currently 31st in line of succession to the British throne.
At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne, behind his first cousins Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, his father, and his elder brother Prince William of Gloucester.
He practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, which he assumed in 1974.
Oh look who is that who's there turn on oh yeah have you seen a girl yeahHe married Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen in July 1972.
Very good.
Very slight fading.