A history fan has revealed how the Queen Consort sent him a personal letter after he found a photo of her great-great grandmother and sent it to her at Clarence House.

Camilla, 75, wrote back to Adam Simpson-York, from Ipswich, to thank him for sending her the photograph of her relative Edrica Faulkner, penning a typed letter with her handwritten signature on it.

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Not much is known about her, except she was apparently the daughter of an itinerant painter, but she married Hugh Morton Shand in 1857 and they had three sons, including Alexander Faulkner Shand, Camilla's great grandfather.

Well, the "itinerant painter", whose name is Joshua Wilson Faulkner, rates a Wikipedia page which informs us he exhibited at the Royal Academy. His elder brother, Benjamin Rawlinson Faulkner, was also a portrait painter. He, too, rates a Wikipedia page.