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Wills took a slghtly different direction from previous Royal issues which tended to focus on Royalty past and present. This time the focus was on events within then reigning monarchs life. Why start the page with this set then. Well if you are going to have no order of presentation make it obvious from the start I say.
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Wills The reign of HM King George V (50 cards) [1935]

One of the longest titles in the cigarette card world. Colourful would certainly be a word which springs quickly to mind on this one. There were a number of Egyptian themed cards but perhaps not as many as you would expect given the massive appeal the Egyptian theme had in Europe during the 1920 /1930's. Still easy to complain there is not enough, lets be glad we have this much. Issued in 1912 this set is curiously out of time.
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Players Egyptian Kings and Queens and Classical Deities (25 cards) [1912]

If you read my comments on the first set you might be wondering when you are going to see a normal royalty series showing a procession of Kings and Queens of history. Well not just yet. This set depicts various crowns which make crowned heads just that. Some rather grand affairs there are two nicely picked out against the background of grey.
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G.Phillips, Famous Crowns [1938[ 25cards

This has to be one of the fascinating Royal sets. Wills produced it quite early and it shows various Royal families about Europe at the time. The fellow illustrated is HRH Prince Henry of Prussia who has an uncanny resemblance to a lot of other European Royal types. Actually covers 2 sets of 50 cards, you cannot help but like this slice if Royal life.
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Wills Portraits of European Royalty (1st series 1908.50 cards) 2nd series, 1908 : 50 cards)

Another relatively early set from Wills, this time focusing on the pomp and circumstance of the coronation. Colourful set although for some reason does not generate the same enthusiasm within me as many an early set does. Still I am not the most royalist of Her Majesty's subjects so perhaps I am not viewing the set from the best seats.
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Wills, The Coronation Series (50 cards) [1911]

This is the first set I think of when thinking of Royalty cigarette cards. Players issued it in 1935 and with some pretty high production values. The only fly in the ointment was it being issued with an adhesive back which makes for storage difficulties in the wrong hands and over the years many people have asked me how to unstick cards which have stuck together. It is a great set of cards. I'm not going to say anymore it'll just mean I sell more and have less of them myself.]
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Players Kings and Queens of England (50 cards) [1935


Wills got rather caught on the hop when Edward VIII decided the accident of his birth brought with it too much responsibility and then spent a good deal of the remainder of his life, with his wife, complaining they neither had the respect nor the money their elevated position entitled them. Instead his younger brother stepped into his shoes at the last minute and did a very respectable job of showing his older brother what a backbone was for. The speed with which the set had to be produced to keep ahead of the game probably shows in the fact it is a black and white set rather than the colour set they were no doubt planning. The set they had planned, The Life of King Edward VIII which had been produced was largely pulped and the few sets that did get away have become one of those great collectables.
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Wills Our King and Queen (50 cards) [1937]

A very thorough set in terms of all those people that struggle around under the weight of ceremonial robes whose function has somehow become fossilized in time. The title of the set tries to recreate that feeling of redundancy but does not quite make it. A might colourful set and given the endless re-jigging of traditions our present Govt feels like doing there is no harm in remembering. Especially given we are all heading for the lowest common denominator faster than ever at the moment.
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Players Coronation Series : Ceremonial Dress [1937]

Players repoduced this series on the same subject earlier in their history. Colourful set once more and the text on the reverse is suitably difficult to comprehend for those of us not steeped in the laws of social order and place settings with 6 knives and forks and four glasses. I've no complaints, but I always feel my life is full enough of rather un-necessary detail to start on this. Its a colourful sets so I can gaze at it like a kid looking at a comic book and making up their own stories.
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Players, Ceremonial and Court Dress (25 cards) [1911]

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