Owl photograph that failed to amuse the prince

This album, included in Sworders’ February 26 sale at Stansted Mountfitchet, contains correspondence relating to an incident over the shooting of an owl during a Royal visit to the Wynyard Park estate in 1896.

A photographer had the bird stuffed and subsequently sent a photograph to Edward, Prince of Wales, w…

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