CONNAUGHT. The Royal Tour of TRH the Duke & Duchess of Connaught in India 1924-25, Part II

Tour Book of Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught. India 1924-1925. Part II. Compiled by A. Batty. Royal Camp, India; The 1st February 1925. 1st edition, octavo [10 x 6½ ins.].

81 pages, unpaginated, left hand pages give the day by day plan, the facing pages are blank apart from the heading Diary and were for members of the tour to fill in. Original red cloth gilt, very clean apart from a line of faint fading along the top of the upper board and some loss of colour along the top half inch or so of the rear board, internally very clean with no marking. This book would have been printed for issue to those accompanying the Duke and Duchess as staff or guests. The most usual information given was timing of meals, notes of trips often for shooting, mentions of visits to various ruling prince [Mysore,Jamnagar, Gwalior, Panna, Bhopal, etc].  This seond leg of the tour started on Tuesday 17th February in Rangoon and then Mandalay, the Irrawaddy, Rangoon, S. S. “Egra” to Madras, Bangalore, Mysore, Jamnagar, Kathiawar, Jamnagar, Gwalior, Bhopal, Mahableshwar, Bombay for S.S. “Narkunda” for Marseilles. may5/1

H.R.H. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connught and Strathearn [1850-1942], The third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, with godfathers the Duke of Wellington & Prince William of Prussia [late Emperor William II, the Duke was an an extremely hard working Royal and a soldier for over 70 years. He served variously as Viceroy of Ireland, Governor General of Canada, represented his brother Edward VII at the 1903 Coronation Durbar in Delhi, and commanded the Bombay Army. He was also Colonel of the Grenadier Guards [see him in that capacity in a group portrait in Copy Photographs section.