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| Folding Fan Crown Copyright The Royal Collection Image via The Royal Collection Trust and Courtesy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Click on the image for a larger size. |
This folding fan was a gift to Queen Alexandra, consort of the bawdy and buxom King Edward VII from Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen, one of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's ten billion grandchildren...okay, there were only forty-two.
The leaf of the fan is made of chicken-skin (mmmm...chicken fan) painted with watercolo(u)r, bodycolo(u)r and highlighted with gold.
The fan was made to commemorate the silver wedding anniversary of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1888.
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