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Autograph Album.- Album assembled by Beatrice Capel, later Lady Michelham, c. 90pp. excluding blanks, including letters, photographs, drawings and inscriptions of many of Europe's high society, politicians, artists and writers, some items crudely mounted with coloured tape, front free silk endpaper loose, hinges weak, bound in contemporary crushed and polished morocco, gilt, "Bertie" stamped in gilt on upper cover, slightly rubbed, large stain on lower cover, gilt panelled spine, g.e., by Hatchards of Piccadilly, rubbed, oblong 4to, 1895-1911 & 1952. ⁂ Items include: various Grace Kelly wedding ephemera, Croation royalty, Madelaine Lemaire watercolour, Suzette Lemaire watercolour, François Coppee poem, Robert de Montesquuou poem, Anatole France poem, Anita Loos postcard and letter, sketches and notes by Robert Hitchens, Princess Mathilde, Maurice de Rothschild, James Armand de Rothschild etc. Beatrice (Berthe, or Bertie) Capel was the daughter of Arthur Capel, shipping merchant, and the sister of Coco Chanel's lover "Boy" Capel. In 1919 she married Herman Alfred Stern, second Baron Michelham of Hellingly (1900-84), of the Stern banking firm.