Socialite Collection (#4)

Jacqueline Kennedy and Princess Grace of Monaco attend a debutante ball in Seville, Spain. 15th April 1966

Memorial Service for Peter Sellers, actor and comedian, at St Martin-in-the-Fields Anglican Church, Trafalgar Square, London, Monday 8th September 1980. Our Picture Shows

Lady Dartmouth, daughter of Alexander McCorquodale and romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, voted one of the 10 best dress ladies in the country

Unity Mitford arrives in Folkestone from Germany. Wrapped in blankets on the quatside, Unity was said to be injured, with a shot to the head. 3rd January 1940

Ghislaine Maxwell, a Director of Oxford United Football Club, received the Fiat Team of the Year Award at a special luncheon held at The Connaught Rooms

The Mirror organised a Disney day out for the kids at Lord and Lady Baths Longleat House, in Wiltshire. A great fun day in which Ghislaine Maxwell presented a cheque for £ 2000 for the save

American stockbroker Charles Sweeney and his fiancee Miss Margaret Whigham leaving Brompton Oratory after attending a rehearsal for their wedding the next day. 20th February 1933

Marquis Claes Lagergren (1853-1930) in eastern costume smoking a hookah. Creator: Guillaume Berggren
Marquis Claes Lagergren (1853-1930) in eastern costume smoking a hookah

Business card portrait - John B. How and Claes Lagergren, 1889. Creator: Paolo Lombardi
Business card portrait - John B. How and Claes Lagergren, 1889

Portrait of Edward (1894-1972) Prince of Wales, 1923 (oil on canvas)
LST257065 Portrait of Edward (1894-1972) Prince of Wales, 1923 (oil on canvas) by Christy, Howard Chandler (1873-1952); 107.9x81.2 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Miss Inez Holden. Beatrice Inez Lisette (Paget) Holden (1903-1974) was a British writer and Bohemian social figure and journalist, also known for her association with George Orwell. Date: 1932

Bridgett Poulett, Jeanne Stourton & Joan Humphreys, Yevonde
Front cover of The Sketch with three portraits of socialites by Madame Yevonde. Top left is Lady Bridgett Poulett, right is Miss Jeanne Stourton and bottom left is Miss Joan Humphreys

Mme. Lucien Lelong wearing a Lelong design
Madame Lucien Lelong, formerly Princess Nathalie Paley, and wife of the dress designer, pictured modelling one of her husbands designs

A group at Murrays including Lady Idina Gordon
A group at Murrays River Club in Maidenhead, Jack Mays outpost of his Beak Street club in Londons Soho. From left, Jack Gordon, the Countess of Munster, Miss Olga Lynn (famous singing teacher)

Margaret Whigham & Mrs Colclough, Best of Everything Ball
Miss Margaret Whigham and Mrs Colclough displaying British gloves, stockings and scarves at the Best of Everything Dinner

Margaret Whigham at the British Porcelain Ball
Margaret Whigham (1912 - 1993), British society figure, debutante of the year in 1930. Later Mrs Charles Sweeny, after marrying the American golfer, and then Duchess of Argyll

Mrs Charles Sweeny and daughter
Mrs Charles Sweeny, formerly Miss Margaret Whigham and later, on her second marriage, Duchess of Argyll, pictured with her daughter Frances

Jewels of Empire Ball - Lady Diana Cooper
Lady Diana Cooper (nee Manners), leader of the Diamond group at the Jewels of Empire Ball, held at the Park Lane Hotel in aid of Enham Village Centre for Disabled Ex-Service Men

Ava Lowle Willing, Lady Ribblesdale (1868-1958), American socialite, wife of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale. late 19th century

Sabrina Guinness and actress Tatum O Neal leave Heathrow Airport for a holiday alongside Tatums dad Ryan O Neal. 27th July 1974

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales plays polo at Cowdray Park, West Sussex. He is pictured with Sabrina Guinness. 3rd August 1979

Luis Martinez de Irujo, Jacqueline Kennedy, the Duchess of Alba and an unidentified man. Seville, Spain. April 1966

Spains gala Debutante Ball at the Casa de Pilatos. Seville, Spain. Pictured, Jacqueline Kennedy and The Duchess of Alba. April 1966

Jacqueline Kennedy attends a debutante ball in Seville, Spain. 15th April 1966

SUSANNAH CONSTANTINE 14 / 12 / 1989
SUSANNAH CONSTANTINE 14/12/1989

Lady Dartmouth, daughter of Alexander McCorquodale and romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland, voted one of the 10 best dress ladies in the country

Tara Palmer Tomkinson - model and socialite and god daughter of Prince Charles. Picture shows Tara modelling the new shirt for The Bertie Wooster Cavenagh shop Picture taken 8th June 1995

Constance, Duchess of Westminster, pictured with her seven year old light chestnut, The Shiek, the first prize winner in the class for riding horses and ponies (suitable for hacking or park works)

Oxford United show off their brand new strip with a photocall at Manor Park. 22-year-old Ghislaine Maxwell, a director at the club is pictured with players and staff

Frankie Howerd, took the two Gabor sisters Eva and Zsa Zsa, out for a different evenings entertainment watching greyhound racing at White City

Alice Roosevelt, b. 1884, 1902. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Alice Roosevelt, b. 1884, 1902. 3/4 lgth. seated, facing slightly left. Illus. in: Leslie's Weekly, 1902 Jan. 20, cover

Helen Hay, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, n.d.. Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Helen Hay, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, n.d

Mademoiselle Delong de Geneve, Monsieur Philippe and Monsieur de Texier (w/c)
896341 Mademoiselle Delong de Geneve, Monsieur Philippe and Monsieur de Texier (w/c) by Carmontelle, Louis Carrogis (1717-1806); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Princess Pauline von Metternich, Austrian socialite
Princess Pauline von Metternich (nee Countess Pauline Sandor de Szlavnicza, 1836-1921), Austrian socialite. She married her uncle, Prince Richard von Metternich, Austrian ambassador to France

Miss Elizabeth Asquith
A portrait painting of Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith Bibesco, an English woman who was to become a socialite, actress and writer

Mlle Lantelme, actress drowned in the Rhine
Mlle Genevieve Lantelme, actress (1883-1911), theatrical portraits, captioned France's most lovely actress, drowned in the Rhine'

Mrs Christa Brassey
Christa Brassey (1909-1986) was born Dorothea Christa Baronin von Bodenhausen. Here she is being celebrated for her talents as a linguist and aviatrix. Date: 1939

Portrait of a Miss Gebhard
Miss Gebhard, an American whose family appear to have taken residence at Corsham Court in Wiltshire. Date: 1910

Advertisement for Matita Ltd, clothing, with Mrs Balfour and two lurchers, fashion studio portrait. With description, Pleasantly assured in the matter of clothes

Lady Ravensdale, formal studio portrait with large pearl earrings. With description, A new portrait of Lady Ravensdale, the eldest of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston's three daughters; she

Yvonne Fitzroy, actress, theatrical portrait in costume in The Arcadians, Shaftesbury Theatre. Captioned, Arcadian with wine glass'. From an article, London Night's Entertainments'

The brides of the sea, 1855 (oil on canvas)
885794 The brides of the sea, 1855 (oil on canvas) by Gatteri, Giuseppe-Lorenzo (1829-86); Museo Civico Rivoltello, Trieste, Italy

The Little Cavaliers, 1867-74 (etching and drypoint on paper)
5860366 The Little Cavaliers, 1867-74 (etching and drypoint on paper) by Manet, Edouard (1832-83); 24 x 38 cm; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA; (add.info.: by Edouard Manet)

Life Cycle of St. John the Baptist: The Banquet of Herod and Herodias receiving the head of John the Baptist
885678 Life Cycle of St. John the Baptist: The Banquet of Herod and Herodias receiving the head of John the Baptist, 1433-35 (fresco) by Masolino da Panicale, Tommaso (1383-c.1447); Baptistery

Moliere Reading Tartuffe at the home of Ninon de Lenclos, 1802 (oil on canvas)
7390309 Moliere Reading Tartuffe at the home of Ninon de Lenclos, 1802 (oil on canvas) by Monsiau, Nicolas Andre (1754-1837); 97 x 146.7 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Moliere)

The Palace of Versailles, view from the avenue of the Dragon fountain, 1676 (engraving)
XOS5872151 The Palace of Versailles, view from the avenue of the Dragon fountain, 1676 (engraving) by Silvestre, Israel (1621-1691); Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

Portrait of the Marquise Casati with peacock feathers, 1911-1913 (oil on canvas)
7146720 Portrait of the Marquise Casati with peacock feathers, 1911-1913 (oil on canvas) by Boldini, Giovanni (1842-1931); Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Lazio

Portrait of Kazimierz Zawisza (1750 - ?), 1754 (oil on canvas)
7370334 Portrait of Kazimierz Zawisza (1750 - ?), 1754 (oil on canvas) by Anonymous; Czartoryski Museum, Cracow, Poland

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