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                <text>Documents relating to the sealing of the Instrument by which King George V granted the style of "Princess Royal" to Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood.</text>
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            <text>&lt;span style="text-decoration:underline;"&gt;Confidential&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;16th December, 1931&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Sir,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am directed by the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th December (134,513/8), transmitting, to be passed under the Great Seal, an Instrument udner the Royal Sign Manual declaring that Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary (Countess of Harewood), G. B. E., shall be styled Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also a Royal Warrant for the sealing of the document, addressed to the Lord Chancellor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I return herewith the Instrument above referred to, with the Great Seal affixed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;I am, Sir, &lt;br /&gt;Your obedient Servant,&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align:right;"&gt;(uncertain initials)&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A. J. Eagleston, Esq., C. V. O.</text>
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            <text>The letter was sent on behalf of Sir Claud Schuster (Clerk of the Crown in Chancery), but it's difficult to make out the author's initials. Whoever it was also initialed the memo to Sir Claud Schuster that appears in the margins of the Royal Warrant. </text>
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