LETTER FROM QUEEN MARY LADY CYNTHIA COLVILLE SHOREDITCH REGENTS PARK ZOO 1939
Letter from Lady Cynthia Colville, Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary, thanking Mr Boyt for his letter to Queen Mary at Marlborough House with a donation following Queen Mary's visit to the Reptile House at London Zoo in Regent's Park. The Queen made the donation to Queens Maternity Home in Hampstead.
Lady Colville was a keen philanthropist and spent a lot of time and energy helping the poor in Shoreditch such that a municipal housing estate was named after her 'Colville Estate Shoreditch'.
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