Lady Strathmore (mother of H.M.Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), handwritten letter dated Jan 7th 1923 on St. Paul's Walden Bury, Welwyn - to her daughters' former Governess Miss Beryl Poignand, thanking her for her Xmas letter and discsing her children and grandchildren. 'We had a nice long visit from Elizabeth before Xmas and she is looking so well in spite of all the hard work she has to do. She is so happy that I feel quite at peace about her'. Sold with two other letters from Lady Strathmore, a photograph of Lady Strathmore with her daughter Princess Elizabeth Duchess of York, a wedding invitation from the Earl and Countess of Strathmore inviting Miss Beryl Poignand to their daughters' Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon wedding tomander W. Leverson-Gower R.N. May 24th 1916 and a dried flower piece of the bouquet. A collection of other Bowes-Lyon family and friends letters to Miss Poignand including the Spencer family and photographs of Elizabeth big game hunting in Africa in 1924