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RARE "Ambassador To Nazi Germany" Sir Nevile Henderson Signed 3X5 Card COA:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Ambassador To Nazi Germany" Sir Nevile Henderson Hand Signed 3X5 Card. This item is authenticated By Todd

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Sir

Nevile Meyrick Henderson GCMG (10 June 1882 – 30 December 1942) was a British

diplomat who served as the ambassador of the United Kingdom to Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1939. Henderson was born

at Sedgwick Park, near Horsham, Sussex, the third child of Robert

Henderson and Emma Caroline Hargreaves. His uncle was Reginald Hargreaves, who

married Alice Liddell, the

original of Alice in Wonderland. Henderson

was very attached to the countryside of Sussex, especially his home of

Sedgwick, and wrote in 1940: "Each time that I returned to England the

white cliffs of Dover meant Sedgwick for me, and when my mother died in

1931 and my home was sold by my elder brother's wife, something went out of my

life which nothing can replace". Henderson was extremely close to his

mother, Emma, a strong-willed woman who had successfully managed the estate at

Sedgwick after her husband's death in 1895 and developed the gardens of

Sedgwick so well that they were photographed by Country Life magazine

in 1901. Henderson called his mother "the presiding genius of

Sedgwick" who was a "wonderful and masterful woman if ever there was

one".

He was educated at Eton and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1905. He was,

as one historian notes, "something of a snob", although another

historian states that his snobbishness mostly derived from the death of his

mother. Henderson had a great love of sports, guns, and hunting, and

those who knew him noted he was always most happy when he was out on the hunt. Henderson

was also known for his love of clothing and always wore the most

expensive Savile Row suits and

a red carnation. He was considered to be one of the most best

dressed men in the Foreign Office, being obsessed with the proper fashion even

during long-distance rail voyages.

Henderson's obsession with his wardrobe, social etiquette, and hunting was part

of a carefully cultivated image that he sought for himself as a polished

Edwardian gentleman.

Henderson never married, but his biographer, Peter Neville, wrote that

"women played an important role in his bachelorhood did not cause questions about his sexuality; Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, the

State Secretary of the Auswärtiges Amt, wrote

in his diary that Henderson was a "ladies' man". In the early 1920s,

Henderson was stationed at the embassy in Turkey, where he played an important role in the often

difficult relations between Britain and the new Turkish Republic. Henderson

had wanted a posting in France, rather than Turkey, where he constantly

complained to his superiors about being sent. During his time in Turkey,

Henderson played a major role in the negotiations about the Mosul dispute,

which had been caused by Turkish President Mustafa Kemal's claim to the Mosul region of Iraq.

Henderson was forceful in upholding the British claim to the region. but

was prepared to yield to Turkish demands for Constantinople. He argued that

Britain had been shown to have a very weak hand by the Chanak Crisis in 1922, which revealed that public opinion

in Britain and its dominions was unwilling go to war

over the issue. Henderson served as an envoy to France in 1928 to

1929 and as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of

Yugoslavia between 1929 and 1935. He did not want the

latter post, whose British legation was considered to be an unglamorous post,

compared to the "grand embassies" in Paris, Berlin, Rome, Moscow,

Vienna, Madrid and Washington. He had been lobbying for a major post in the

Paris embassy and, expecting to move back to Paris soon, continued to pay the

rent for his apartment there for some time after moving to Belgrade. During

his time in Belgrade, Henderson became a very close friend of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia,

who shared his love of hunting and guns. In January 1929, having been a

constitutional monarch, Alexander had staged a self-coup, abolished democracy and made himself the dictator

of Yugoslavia. Henderson had a strong tendency towards hero worship and found in Alexander a hero worthy of his

admiration who could do no wrong. Henderson's dispatches from Belgrade took on

a notably pro-Yugoslav tone. His friendship with Alexander notably increased

British influence in Yugoslavia, which first brought him attention in the

Foreign Office. As would be the case during his time in Berlin,

Henderson took exception to any negative remark in the British press about

Yugoslavia and wrote to the Foreign Office to ask if anything could be done to

silence such criticism.After Alexander's assassination in Marseilles, France, in October 1934, Henderson wrote: "I

felt more emotion at King Alexander's funeral than I felt at any other except

my mother's". Henderson wrote to a friend in Britain in 1935:

"My sixth winter in the Belgrade trenches is the worse of all. The zest

has gone out of it with King Alexander gone. It interested me enormously that made

all the difference".Henderson was also in close confidence with Prince Paul, the regent of

Yugoslavia on behalf of Alexander's son, Peter II, who was only a

boy. In January 1935, the Permanent Undersecretary at the Foreign Vansittart sharply rebuked him for a letter he

had written to Paul in which Henderson strongly supported Yugoslavia's

complaints against Italy. Vansittart complained particularly about Henderson's

claim that the Italian government supported Croat and Macedonian separatist

terrorists and that Italy had been involved in Alexander's assassination:

"Are we convinced of this and do we wish Prince Paul to think that we are

convinced of it". In 1935, Henderson became ambassador to Argentina. On 28 May 1937, Foreign

Secretary Anthony Eden appointed

Henderson to be ambassador in Berlin. After he had been prime minister, Harold Macmillan, wrote of that appointment:

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