When King Charles was a young student prince, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip sent him to Cheam preparatory school, his father’s alma mater.

During three years at boarding school, the future king of England came under the watch of Stella Jack, who had a stern reputation as the school’s head matron.

In his first year in 1957, Charles gifted Matron Jack a crayon drawing of a sailing boat, believed to have been drawn from memory of his time sailing in Bluebottle, his father’s Dragon Class boat.

The work bearing the prince’s signature, P. Charles signed in the lower right-hand corner, has resurfaced in the hands of gallerist Justin Miller who is bringing it to Sydney Contemporary art fair opening Thursday, along with an Andy Warhol, a Brett Whiteley, and a painting by French impressionist

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