Jeanne [Elisabeth of Romania] - Sené

[Elisabeth of Romania] - Sené, Jeanne

concierge of Château Fabion (fl. 1950). Autograph letter signed. Nice. 4to. 1 page. With stapled autograph envelope.
$ 131 / 120 € (87279/BN57730)

To Marquis Marc de Favrat in Cannes with good wishes for the recovery of Princess Elisabeth of Romania, former Queen of Greece, having read about her hospitalisation in the newspaper: "Par le journal j'apprends que la Santé de Sa Majesté la Reine Elisabeth n'est pas très brillante et qu'Elle a dû être hospitalisée. Je vous demande de vouloir bien être mon interprète auprès de Sa Majesté [...]". - Elisabeth of Romania (1894-1956) settled in Cannes some years after her expulsion from Romania in 1947 when the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed.

In France she met the much younger aspiring artist Marc Favrat, who became her lover and whom she made her equerry and adopted in the year of her death. - Some ink offsetting; envelope with a large ink stain..

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