CHARLES III (1948- ) King of the United Kingdom since 2022. Signed and inscribed Christmas greetings card, the stiff white 8vo folding card featuring a colour photograph to the inside of the Prince of Wales in a half-length pose in traditional ceremonial dress and feathered headdress during a visit to Canada in July 1977. Signed and inscribed by the future King in bold blue fountain pen ink above and beneath a printed Christmas and New Year greeting, ´Michael and Nan......and much love from Charles´, further adding Canada 1977 in his hand beneath the photograph. With a gold printed coat of arms to the front cover. EX

Prince Charles visited Alberta in July 1977 to mark the centenary of Treaty 7. On 7th July, during a ceremony at the Sun Dance Camp, he was made an honorary chief of the Kainai (Blood) Nation and given the name Mekaisto (Red Crow).