Brooch on offer was given to bridesmaids at a royal wedding

One of the eight York Rose brooches given by Prince Albert (later George VI) to the bridesmaids who attended his marriage to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother) in 1923, will be offered at Noonans in Mayfair on November 25.

The wedding of the future king took place on April 26, 1923, at Westminster Abbey. As the second so…

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