{"id":136,"date":"2006-02-19T22:57:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T02:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=136"},"modified":"2006-02-19T22:57:58","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T02:57:58","slug":"mickey-meets-the-future-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/19\/mickey-meets-the-future-queen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Meets the Future Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How about some 1930s book art featuring cartoon characters other than Oswald the Lucky Rabbit? I recently picked up a copy of <em>The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book<\/em>, a 1935 tie-in with the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children. What it is, essentially, is an anthology of children&#8217;s stories, many of them by well-known authors and others featuring popular comics and cartoon characters of the day, such as Rupert Bear, Teddy Tail, Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, and&#8230;Mickey Mouse and friends.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the product of an interesting moment in time when Princess Elizabeth of York was a young celebrity but it didn&#8217;t yet occur to anyone she&#8217;d become Queen of England someday; when Rudyard Kipling and J.M. Barrie were still alive and writing and thefore able to contribute to a book that also included work from a studio which would bastardize their stories years later; and when the British had adopted Mickey Mouse as one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>The start and end of the book have color spreads of the Disney gang attending a &#8220;party&#8221; in celebration of the hospital that are two of the nicest pieces of illustration of them I&#8217;ve ever seen. (David Gerstein, if you&#8217;re reading this, are these by Wilfred Haughton?) Here they are:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elizabethdisney1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/elizabethdisney1.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"elizabethdisney2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/elizabethdisney2.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about some 1930s book art featuring cartoon characters other than Oswald the Lucky Rabbit? I recently picked up a copy of The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book, a 1935 tie-in with the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children. What it is, essentially, is an anthology of children&#8217;s stories, many of them by well-known authors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/19\/mickey-meets-the-future-queen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mickey Meets the Future Queen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}