DLA123-0194 Transcription
BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Philip de Làszló Esq.,
3 Fitzjohn’s Avenue,
Hampstead,
N.W.
3rd. December, 1923.
Dear Mr. de Làszló,
In reply to your letter to Sir Frederick Ponsonby[1] of the 19th. November – Will you kindly write to the Foreign Office with reference to permission to wear the decoration which the King of Sweden has conferred upon you,[2] as application for “private permission” to wear Foreign Decorations must be made to that Office.
Yours very truly,
Stamfordham [signed]
Editorial Note:
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham (1849-1931); Private Secretary to King George V of Great Britain (1865-1936) from 1910 to 1931.
LR
26/03/2020
[1] Frederick Edward Grey (‘Fritz’) Ponsonby, 1st Baron Sysonby (1867-1935), Keeper of the Privy Purse; Deputy Governor of Windsor Castle
[2] In 1922, King Gustav V of Sweden (1858-1950) [8017] conferred the Knight Commander of the Order of the Vasa on de László.