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Royal letters and photos from WW1 fail to sell

Edit BBC News 02 Oct 2014
The future Kings Edward VIII and George VI wrote to their mentor Admiral William Campbell Tait throughout the first half of the 20th Century....

Royal letters and photos go under the hammer

Edit BBC News 01 Oct 2014
The letters from the future Kings, Edward VIII and George VI, were written to Admiral William Campbell Tait in the early 20th century ... Writing on 5 August 1914, the day after Britain entered the war, he tells "Dear Tait" of his shock that the country was at war with Germany ... Admiral Tait was hand-picked by the princes' mother, Queen Mary, to mentor the adolescent royals....

British coroner records open verdict on rugby star David Tait found dead in pool

Edit South China Morning Post 23 Feb 2014
A coroner in Britain has recorded an open verdict at an inquest into the death of David Tait, a Hong Kong resident and captain of Kowloon Rugby Football Club ... His father, Campbell Tait, was found hanged in the family home in 2004, and Tait was said to have been upset over the death of a former Sharks teammate, Selorm Kuadey, in early 2012....

British coroner records open verdict on Kowloon rugby star David Tait

Edit South China Morning Post 22 Feb 2014
A coroner in Britain has recorded an open verdict at an inquest into the death of David Tait, a Hong Kong resident and captain of Kowloon Rugby Football Club ... His father, Campbell Tait, was found hanged in the family home in 2004, and Tait was said to have been upset over the death of a former Sharks teammate, Selorm Kuadey, in early 2012....
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