Prince of Wales Indian tour of 1921-22. A shooting lunch with the Mahraja of Cooch Behar.

An interesting group photograph of a shooting lunch, almost certainly in the Nepal Terai where the H.R.H. Edward Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII] spent a week of hinting there just before Christmas 1921 on hos tour indian tour. The image, 10½ x 8¾ ins visible. now in a window mount came to us in an old collection from the Maharja of Cooch Behar. The Prince is seated second from the left in relaxed pose. The British officer seated on the grass seems to have suffered an unfirtunate accident [could this perhaps be the Prince’s aide. ‘Fruity’ Metcalfe?      sep17/1