Bidspirit auction | CHARLES III: (1948- )

CHARLES III: (1948- ) - CHARLES III: (1948- ) King of the United Kingdom since 2022. T.L.S., Charles , as Prince of Wales, with holograph salutation and subscription, one page, 4to, (London), 11 th April 1988, to [Helen] Boehm, on the printed stationery of Kensington Palace. The Prince thanks his correspondent for their kind letter and regrets having missed her in Palm Beach ( ‘but I really had no idea you were there. What a pity!’ ), further writing ‘It is splendid to know you will be over here in May and extremely kind of you to arrange for the polo pony auction to benefit the Grooms Fund. What a really generous idea!’ and concluding by informing Boehm that he won’t be able to attend her evening at Garrard’s as he will be out of the country, but hopes that it is a great success. VG Helen Boehm (1920-2010) American businesswoman, known as the ‘Princess of Porcelain’. Her company, co-founded with her husband Edward Marshall Boehm in 1950, created a porcelain copy of the wedding bouquet of Diana, Princess of Wales, and also crafted a white rose in her memory following her death.