Robert and Shelia Stone meeting Queen Elizabeth II
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09620.423 Author/Creator: Place Written: London, England Type: Photograph Date: 1981 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 18.5 x 24.5 cm. Order a Copy
One photograph taken by Pic Photos dated 1981. Photograph taken at a London Theater at a command performance of the 1981 movie "Absence of Malice" starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, and directed by Sidney Pollack. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip were in attendance.
In the photograph, left to right: Sheila Stone, Robert L. Stone, Executive Vice President at Columbia Pictures, Katherine Price nee Crawford, Frank Price, President of Columbia Pictures Productions, and Queen Elizabeth II.
Robert "Bob" Stone was a Bombardier in World War II and served in the Pacific Front. These letters, were compiled by Bob's wife, Sheila M. Stone, and Ali Adair into a book named Letters in a Box. This book details Bob's service to his country, and his life after the war. Bob's letters were donated to the collection by his wife, Sheila M. Stone, in 2017. It contains a variety of letters, postcards, patches, pins, photographs, and scrapbooks that relate to Bob's training and combat missions.
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