Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is putting one of his private collections of paintings on display for the first time in 50 years.
The prince - the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth - will put his collection of Antarctica paintings by Edward Seago on show to raise money for charity.
Proceeds will go to the Scott Polar Research Institute - the oldest organisation of its kind in the world. The 85-year-old royal obtained the artworks as a gift from the renowned artist after he toured the Antarctic peninsular and the Falkland Islands in 1956. The paintings by Seago - who passed away in 1974 - have not been seen by the public for half a century. They will be displayed in an exhibition at London auction house Bonhams, as part of a bid to raise £5million for the institute. The Scott Polar Research Institute was set up in 1920 in memory of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team who perished while returning to their base after a pioneering expedition to the South Pole in 1912.
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