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QUEEN MARY IS EIGHTY: Facets of Her Remarkable Career of Service

... A wartime picture of Queen Mary, whose remarkable career of service to the Commonwealth has extended over very nearly fifty-five years, since her marriage in 1893 to the future King George V. QUEEN MARY AND THE LATE QUEEN ALEXANDRA The ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 697 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

NAVAL and MERCHANT NAVAL OCCASIONS: And Other Home News in Pictures

... Burnett (left), who succeeded Admiral Sir Henry Pridham Wippell (right), seen together at the handing-over ceremony. Massed Royal Marine bands from H.M.S. Drake and Raleigh beat Retreat when Sir Henry's flag was hauled down THE NEW C.-IN-C. INSPECTS HIS ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 897 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MEN OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD

... footmen. At home the Royal Household numbers over 250 people quite apart from clerks and domestic staff. Nor does this figure include the Queen's Household of a dozen Queen Mary's of twenty-six Princess Elizabeth's of two the Princess Royal's of six the Duchess ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1982 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

THE ROYAL PRESENTATION PARTY ON BUCKINGHAM PALACE LAWNS: A Brilliant Social Gathering on an Afternoon of Sunshine

... lace made their apt#' ance, creations which will doubtl appear later in Ascot's Royal Enclose while the men not in Service undo wore morning coats. The King Queen, Queen Mary, who had I s, celebrated her eightieth birthday, 1 the Princesses all toured ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 437 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

U.S. WARSHIPS PAY A CALL: The Queen Mary's New Stem: A Dredger in Difficulties: The Ladysmith Dinner

... TO THE QUEEN MARY Welders at work on the scaf folding which has been built round the bows of the 80,000-ton liner in the King George V Graving Dock at Southampton, where she is now being fitted out prior to the resumption of her passenger service on the ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1031 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

THE RISE OF BRITAIN'S CARRIER FLEET: From the Mixed Types of the Early Days to the Modern Spearheads of Battle: ..

... (left) and the Foudroyanl (right) seen at their moorings at Portsmouth, where they have just completed their last spell of naval service. They will not be broken up, as it was feared, but will resume their role as holiday training ships IMPLACABLE AND FOUDROYANT ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1222 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WEDDING STORY

... Carnegie, and Lady Katherine and Major Richard Brandram. The next procession was H.M. the Queen and Queen Mary, with foreign Royal guests and other members of the Royal family. This was headed by Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Bromley and Lt.-Col. Henry de Satgd ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2305 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE EIGHT BRIDESMAIDS THE PAGES AND THE BEST MAN

... First Sea Lord at the outbreak of the First World War THE FOUR YOUNGEST BRIDESMAIDS Left-- Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret. Left centre-- Princess Alexandra, daughter of the Duchess of Kent She was born on Christmas Day, 1936. Right centre Lady Caroline ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 318 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... lives in two world wars. Last Sunday the King and the Royal Family, Ministers, members of the forces and civilians gathered again round the Cenotaph to remember and salute the dead. There were also services throughout the country and throughout the Commonwealth ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 256 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL

... are also on Her Royal Highness's diary. Unfortunately, when she visits Glasgow there is a clash of dates, which rarely happens with Royal functions, for on the day she launches the new liper, the King and Queen are visiting the Royal Naval ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1947
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2330 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

A SOUTH AFRICAN BIRTHDAY FOR PRINCESS ELIZABETH

... page we give charming portraits of her Royal Highness at the ages of two, seven, thirteen, sixteen when she registered for National Service at the Windsor Labour Exchange and to-day. Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born in a private house ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 273 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs