VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. A.L.S., The Queen, in the third person, two pages, 8vo, Osborne, 23rd November 1851, to the Duke of Wellington, on her black monogrammed mourning stationery. The Queen states that she has received Wellington's letter and 'approves that a general Order for the officers of her Army to wear mourning for the late King of Hanover, shld. be issued, similar to the one wh. was issued on the occasion of the death of the Duke of Cambridge'. With blank integral leaf. A letter of good association. Some light age wear, otherwise about VG

Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (1771-1851) King of Hanover 1837-51, son of King George III. The King died on 18th November 1851 and was mourned greatly in Hanover, and less so in England despite the content of the present letter. The Times newspaper omitted the customary black border to its front page and claimed 'the good that can be said of the Royal dead is little or none'.