{"product_id":"royal-invitation-duke-coburg-grand-duchess-maria-romanov-ehrenberg-palace-1896","title":"Royal Invitation Duke Coburg Grand Duchess Maria Romanov Ehrenberg Palace 1896","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"c0\" style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 18.66670036315918px; background-color: rgb(245, 240, 240);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;\"\u003eBibelotslondon Ltd is a UK registered company based in London Bridge dealing in ephemera and curiosities from Britain and around the world. Our diverse inventory is carefully chosen and constantly evolving. We work very hard to offer the highest quality works at competitive prices. Our inventory is listed online, and we strive to keep our website completely up to date, so our customers can easily check availability. We believe in offering clients items that are unique and rare for aficionados of the antique and collector's world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003eBibelot is a late nineteenth century word derived from the French word bel ‘beautiful’, meaning a small item of beauty, curiosity or interest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"apple-converted-space\" style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 18.66670036315918px; background-color: rgb(245, 240, 240);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c0\" style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 18.66670036315918px; background-color: rgb(245, 240, 240);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003eThe word ephemera is derived from the sixteenth century Greek word ephmera meaning a printed or hand written paper not meant to be retained for a long period of time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\n\u003cfont face=\"Arial\" style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"\u003eFine and rare antique invitation to a New Year's Eve Ball at Ehrenburg Palace in Coburg hosted by Prince \u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial\" color=\"#202020\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"\u003eAlfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900), and his wife Grand Duchess Maria \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"\u003eAlexandrovna, dated 31st December 1896, embossed with the Coburg and Imperial Russian coat of arms, signed by the Oberhofmarshal. They reigned as Duke and Duchess from 1893-1900. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial\" color=\"#202020\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Arial\" color=\"#202020\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eHe was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003ewas known as the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 until he succeeded his paternal uncle Ernest II \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eas the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eOn 23 January 1874, the Duke of Edinburgh married the Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003ethe second (and only surviving) daughter of Emperor Alexander II. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eOn the death of his uncle \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eon 22 August 1893, the duchy fell to the Duke of Edinburgh, since his elder brother (the Prince of Wales) had renounced his right to the succession before he married. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"box-sizing: inherit;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); 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