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| Picture No | 10700653 |
| Date | 1917 |
| Description | War birthday gifts for Queen Mary - inspecting books WW1 |
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Queen Mary and Princess Mary pictured during a visit to the Queen's Needlework Guild at St. James' Palace inspecting the huge number of birthday gifts. Including among this were 102,000 books in addition to money presents exceeding £1600, all of which the Queen decided should be distributed amongst the wounded in the hospitals, the Belgian refugees and war organisations generally.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 20 June 1917 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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