BUCKINGHAM PALACE LETTER

LONDON to YORKSHIRE

1 JUNE 1949

"ER" PURPLE CACHET

Honi soit qui mal y pense ON REAR.

Great Britain = London S.W.I. = Official Paid.

Sent to = N. Hill Esquire, South grove County Secondary School, Rotherham, Yorkshire.

Honi soit qui mal y pense is a French maxim used as the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter. It is translated as "May he be shamed who thinks badly of it" or "Shame be to him who thinks evil of it" or "Evil be to him that evil thinks." 

Condition: Good condition. Has some very light edge wear.