Sale Ends Today Prince Charles 1975 hand signed RARE Christmas -Not autopen

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Sale Ends Today Prince Charles 1975 hand signed RARE Christmas -Not autopen:
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Exceptionally RARE hand signed Christmas card from HRH Prince Charles, future King of England
A Christmas card for 1975 , the opening cover with HRH The Prince of Wales crest, the interior with a printed color photo of HRH Prince Charles in full Commander and Chief of the Welsh Guards military uniform and mounted upon a horse. Addressed to Christian with the printed message, with all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year 1975. signed and with love from Charles.Hand signed. Not auto pen.
9\"X14\" when open
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The Mail On Sunday
November 17, 2002, By Caroline Graham and Ian Gallagher
DEALER REVEALS ONE MILLION POUND TRADE IN ROYAL TREASUREWORLD EXCLUSIVE, BEVERLY HILLS COLLECTOR ALICIA CARROLL REVEALS HOW SHE PAID ONE MILLION POUNDS TO ROYAL RELATIVES AND SERVANTS - AND HOW WHEN SHE REPORTED FEARS OVER THEFT, THE PALACE DID NOTHING.

A covert network of Palace servants and international dealers who trade in stolen royal artifacts is sensationally exposed today by the Mail on Sunday. The scale of the trade - which is systematic and highly organized - is laid bare by Alicia Carroll, America\'s foremost dealer in intimate royal letters, gifts and memorabilia. She told this newspaper yesterday how she has marketed items worth three millionpounds, many of them clearly pilfered, and retains a collection worth another three million pounds.

She had, for example, acquired affectionate letters from Princess Diana to Prince William costing 26,500 pounds, and many other highly personal communications between members of the Royal family.

Her revelations reveal the level of disloyalty within the staff quarters of the Royal palaces. Equally agonizing for the royals, Ms. Carroll discloses that many other items have not been stolen, but sold to dealers for easy money by family members and friends. Carroll admitted, however, that many items were obtained dishonestly. \"It\'s time the British public knew the truth about what has gone on.
People who deal in Royal memorabilia like me have never spoken about the fact we know a lot of these items are stolen because it would not be good for business. But they are stolen.\"

Carroll\'s vast collection - plates, busts, dolls, postcards, photographs and puzzles - is housed in a vast warehouse outside her Beverly Hills home. She has long been fascinated with the Royal Family and started collecting memorabilia as a hobby before setting up her company years ago.
The trade in Royal items came under scrutiny both during and after the trial of Paul Burrell, who was cleared of plundering Diana’s personal belongings from Kensington Palace. It has since led to the promise of an inquiry into allegations that Michael Fawcett, Prince Charles personal consultant, was discretely allowed to sell unwanted gifts and take some of the proceeds. But the sheer scale of the covert market uncovered by The Mail on Sunday will shock many.

The Los Angeles-based dealer revealed that David Griffin, the Princess head chauffeur, was a main supplier of items- although his were acquired legitimately - and recruited other servants. Items were then sold on by an American middleman . Griffin sold a lock of the Princess\'s hair - which she gave to him in a birthday card - just six months after she died, boasting at the time that it was 100% genuine. Ms. Carroll claims that she alerted Buckingham Palace and police when offered items that were obviously pilfered, but officials , she said , were not interested.
Some of the items believed stolen have included a check signed by George VI to the Queen Mother. There were cards from the Queen Mother to Lord Linley and , incredibly, notes sent to family and friends by Prince William and Prince Harry in appreciation for the support shown after their mother\'s death.
Ms. Carroll said, \"Buckingham Palace turned a blind eye to it. With everything that has come out of it makes you wonder whether the royals let the pilfering continue because they had other skeletons they were trying to keep in the closet. They did nothing . They just didn\'t seem to care. As well as the Linley cards, I was offered a check signed by King George VI to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, along with a stack of blank checks belonging to the king. The person who took them probably thought no one would miss them. I reported that to the Palace too, but nothing happened.
According to Ms. Carroll, it was the American autograph dealer, who offered her the Linley Christmas cards. She said, I was sure they were stolen. I am certain neither the Queen Mother nor David Linley sold them, so they must have been taken. The me they came from directly inside the Palace. Unsure of who to contact in England, she called a friend, royal portrait artist Richard Stone. Mr. Stone confirmed to the Mail on Sunday, \" I rang Sir Robert Fellows, then the Queen\'s private secretary , and told him. The Queen\'s lawyers then called me and I told them Alicia thought she had been offered stolen items. Alicia faxed me illustrations of the items and I passed those on to the lawyer. Then David Linely called me directly and asked me for all the details of the items, which I gave him. I didn\'t hear anything after that conversation.
Some of the transactions, those involving gifts which have been given directly to a servant or a friend and later sold - are not illegal.According to Ms Carroll, Princess Diana\'s cousin, Joanna Tuffnell sent her husband Peter from their home in Wales to Los Angeles with \"boxes\" of memorabilia which Alicia bought for thousands of dollars. They included the Order of Service for Diana’s funeral and a set of place mats, emblazoned with copies of Prince Charles watercolors given as a gift to Diana\'s grandmother Ruth, Lady Fermoy. Mrs. Tuffnell, the daughter of Diana\'s aunt Mary, told the Mail on Sunday: \"That was my husband. It was actually quite confidential. I don\'t think I can say anything. Are you going to use my name? It is all a bit of a shock.
\"Ms. Carroll says her telephone was ringing off the hook, in the days after Diana died in a Paris car crash. I had servants calling me and offering me her clothing and private pictures. But when I asked for names and phone numbers to verify where the stuff was coming from, they would hang up on me. Even Christmas tags - among them one from The Queen to Prince Philip signed, \"With fondest love, Lilibet - were offered for sale.Ms Carroll said, \"There is a network of people inside the Palace on the lookout for cards and gift tags because they are worth thousands to a collector.
I think the servants and aides took the attitude that they could systematically steal and nothing would happen. So they did. Often they would respond to adverts in the Times placed by dealers posing as collectors and offering up to one thousand pounds for individual cards and letters. But according to Ms. Carroll, many of the servants are well aware of the main dealers and contact them directly.
I had a few Diana things before she died, but after the car crash, the vultures started circling. The money that was changing hands was scary. I wrote checks totaling 300,000 pounds in the six months after Diana died. I was re-selling to American collectors, for a profit, as soon as I got the items in.
One call she received was from a man with an English accent offering to sell Diana\'s dresses, hats, shoes, blouses and purses as well as a silver cake server and picture frames. She had seen Paul Burrell on the Oprah Winfrey show and wondered if it was him. I thought I recognized the voice but my friends said , \"Oh Alicia, it couldn\'t be.\" When the Burrell trial started, Alicia called Scotland Yard about her suspicious call. I asked them if they checked Paul Burrell\'s phone records. The detective rang me back the next morning and said they didn\'t have the time to check phone records.
Intriguingly, the american autograph dealer told The Mail on Sunday that he was contacted six months before by an FBI agent who wanted to quiz him on behalf of British authorities about Burrell. \"I didn\'t know who Burrell was at the time. The name didn\'t mean anything to me and I don\'t remember ever talking to him. The FBI seemed satisfied and I didn\'t hear from them again. I do have other contacts in the Royal household and I\'m the main guy for Royal autographs so it is possible he would have known about me.
\"Ms. Carroll did much of her business with a London based dealership who sold her a letter from Princess Diana to Wombat, Diana\'s pet name for William. Some letters from Diana to Wombat were listed as suspected stolen items by the prosecution in the Burrell trial - though these are not the ones Ms. Carroll bought. Ms Carroll said, at the time I was not suspicious. I actually had two Wombat letters.
I knew the origin of - it was when William was sent a sweater at his first school. He threw the box away and a classmate pulled the note from Diana out of the trash and gave it to his mother. She kept it for 15 years and called me when she was going through a divorce and needed the money, I bought it and sold it to a collector . The note was very sweet and was all about how Diana hoped he was being a good boy at school and she hoped he liked his new classmates.
In July 2000 she bought another wombat latter from the London based dealer. She said she paid 26,000 pounds. It was a letter about how Diana was glad William was doing well at school and how Mummy and Daddy missed him.

She added, after Prince Charles\'s apartments were robbed, I had a call from a man with an Italian accent offering to sell me some cufflinks belonging to Edward VIII. Again, I called the Palace and left a message saying I was being offered what I thought was stolen property but no one returned my call. Then I called Scotland yard. But again, no one rang me back.

Carroll showed the Mail On Sunday a note on palace letterhead which Griffin wrote to an Americanuine. In it, Griffin promised to tell other servants about the dealer, saying, I have put the word around for you.
Ms Carroll described Griffin’s attempt to sell a lock of Diana\'s hair as disgusting. But added, I know I could have sold that hair to one of my best clients, a famous and wealthy man in NY for 65,000 pounds.

Last night Griffin admitted selling the lock of hair, which he said Diana had sent him as a joke. He said he teased her saying, it wasn\'t her natural color. He said, I haven\'t done anything wrong and when the Palace looked into allegations I was exonerated. He said he received about 11,000 pounds for a collection of Diana cards and the hair. Ms Carroll said it is obvious from the letter that Mr. Griffin was soliciting other servants inside the palace. The Griffin letter ends with the warning, Remember, This letter is for your eyes only!!!!autograph dealer, stressing that the items he had sold were gen

Sunday, February 27, 2011
An Evening with the Royals - Doc Zone | CBC-TVThursday March 31 at 8 pm on CBC TV
Join CBC for “An Evening with the Royals” as we take a look at the media and marketing frenzy surrounding the royal family, especially with the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.Marketing the Monarchy (at 8 pm on CBC-TV) – Prince William and Kate Middleton\'s upcoming wedding has sparked a worldwide marketing frenzy. The pending nuptials are expected to flood the economy with over a billion dollars of merchandise - a sales bonanza not seen since the wedding of Charles and Diana. And it\'s not just the Brits; monarchy fans all over the globe are opening their wallets for a piece of history from $10 plates to $5,000 paperweights.
At factories across England, manufacturers are spinning out their porcelain cups, mugs, and plates at breakneck speed. Five thousand miles away in Yiwu, China, jewellery dealer Fu Xuxian began making replicas of the engagement ring just days after the announcement. And souvenir shops across London are trying to keep up with the consumer demand for anything and everything William and Kate.
This documentary takes viewers into the lucrative world of marketing the royals. We\'ll meet top royal memorabilia broker Alicia Carroll, who is the first stop for serious collectors. Carroll, who lives in Beverly Hills, possesses - and has sold - some of the rarest and most sought after items on the market ranging from Princess Diana\'s personal address book to the love letters Prince Charles wrote to his former Canadian lover. As a big-time dealer, she has moved millions of dollars in royal merchandise.Everything Royal owner, Alicia CarrollMaking money off memorabilia is one thing, but the crown jewel of marketing comes in the form of a Royal Warrant. Royal Warrant holders carry the official seal of approval from the Queen herself. From Hunter boots to Burberry to Twinings Tea to Kimberly Clark toilet paper, these companies are cashing in on the cache of belonging to an exclusive court of brands. Membership is an arduous and complicated process and can be revoked. At any time.
But the power of the Palace doesn\'t stop there. It extends its dominion further to determine what wares are allowed to bear their royal image. Plates, carpets, and cushions are permitted. Tea towels? Not so much. When it was the discovered that the Palace was attempting a ban on Kate and William tea towels, Brits were outraged, placing this unassuming household item in the centre of a battle royale.Marketing the Monarchy is a whirlwind journey through time that maps the growing fascination with all things majestic. Even in the Middle Ages, memorabilia such as medallions, ceramics and tapestries were best-sellers at royal events. In 1649 a unique (and rather macabre) souvenir unfolded from the execution of Charles 1st: eager collectors dipped their handkerchiefs in the king\'s blood. Royal fans looking for something with a bit more material could always snap up a (very large) pair of Queen Victoria\'s bloomers, which recently sold for over $7500 USD.Join us as we take you through the fascinating world of retailing the royals. Savvy marketers, discriminating collectors, and a big dose of palace intrigue will guarantee that you see \"the wedding of the century\" in a whole new light.The British Royal family has always had a love/hate relationship with the media. From Edward VIII’s abdication from the throne in 1936 to marry an American divorcee, the very public and controversial divorce between Prince Charles and Princess Diana and in more recent times, Fergie, Duchess of York caught on tape by a tabloid promising business access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in exchange for money.For paparazzi, the chase is on to capture unauthorized revealing photos or text messages by any means necessary. These spark offerding wars among the tabloids and the payouts are enormous.Princess Diana was notably the most sought after Royal. She has graced the cover of countless magazines…did you know Lady Di has appeared on the cover of People magazine 57 times? However, her untimely death while being chased by paparazzi in the Pont de l\'Alma tunnel in Paris brought heightened public awareness to the dangers associated with aggressive paparazzi.
Constant media scrutiny and tabloid stories have raised the ire of many, including Prince William. On the heels of their engagement announcement, Prince William is said to be observing a ‘zero tolerance’ policy toward paparazzi and intends to counteract any extreme cases of privacy invasion with legal action.Throughout their courtship, Kate Middleton has expressed frustration with the harassment she endured from photographers. At one time, she appealed to the Press Complaints Commission when photographers would camp outside of her home in London. In 2010, Kate was awarded $8,000 (Can.) £5,000 for breach of privacy when photos surfaced of her playing tennis during a Christmas holiday.
Chasing the Royals explores the Monarchy’s constant battle for the right to privacy against the paparazzi’s dogged pursuit to expose their personal exploits. What will the future hold for the next generation of Royals as they attempt to maintain ‘normalcy’ while living in the public eye.