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... coach to Buckingham Palace. Mr. Brudenell had also lent to Major-General John Combe, who, with his wife, was at the Ball, the tunic and slung jacket worn by the Earl of Cardigan on the day of the Charge. As her husband is Colonel of the nth Hussars, Mrs ...

Published: Wednesday 15 December 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3604 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SHORTEST OF SEASONS

... Castle Rock, which belongs to Miss Cust herself a noted yachtswoman is a small villa smothered in red fuchsias. Adeline Lady Cardigan lives at Rose Cottage, which has rose- coloured blinds, a garden of roses, and an owner that goes about in a rose-trimmed ...

Published: Wednesday 05 August 1908
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1671 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

Pictures in the Fire

... Secretary, C.U.B.C., and his father. Sir John Gilmour, the Home Secretary AT THE TIPPERARY POINT-TO-POINT Sir Thomas Ainsworth, a former Master of these houncts, also of the Meath and the Blazers Miss Ruth St. John Murphy, a sister-in-law of Major Furlong ...

Published: Wednesday 28 March 1934
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1969 | Page: 56 | Tags: Photographs 

The Passing Hour: Comments and Asides

... Imperial Airways for mail-carrying, thus freeing the flying-boats for passengers And surely officialdom ought not to prevent Sir John Reith from buying aeroplanes abroad during the emergency. The great black-out was a success in my part of London, anyway. Punc ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1730 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

HERE AND THERE: A G(u)ilded Tea-Party

... , woven with a I central inscription surrounded by the arms of the United States and the Royal Arms of Belgium. An American pillow contained the Eagle and Stars bordered by ears of wheat the arms of Belgian cities, emblems of the Allies, animals, the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 December 1917
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2668 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

DRAMA OF THE WEEK

... on Monday there was a tremendous outburst of applause when there was found among the company assembled the British Lion arm in arm with the American Eagle. There is satire in the air, and the outcome of the whole business is huge enjoyment for those who ...

On and Off Duty: A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country; In the Family Tradition

... black silk dress, lace cap and fichu, carrying a long-clothed baby doll in her arms. Among the audience were Lady Louis Mountbatten, the Marchioness of Willingdon, Sir John and Lady Kennedy, Lady Chet- wode, Lady Hudson and Caroline Viscountess Bridgeman ...

Published: Wednesday 03 March 1943
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2870 | Page: 10, 12, 13, 26 | Tags: Photographs 

OLÉ! AS THEY SAY IN THE OLD BROMPTON ROAD

... then erupted in a cascade of flounces. The dance was pure sexual display, he always dominat ing, she crouching, back arched, arms held stiffly down, stretched fingers fluttering like the wings of a mating bird. It built to a tempestuous climax a frenzy ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2072 | Page: 15, 16, 17 | Tags: Photographs 

Fashion's Fancies: Ensembles Rule the Waves

... figure cn the beach, both before and after her swim. Stockinette swimmers are completed by matching sleeveless coats, built on cardigan lines, and the voluminous wraps of Turkish and Terry towelling, sometimes plain, sometimes patterned, invariably blend in ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1928
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1908 | Page: 70 | Tags: Photographs 

Article

... by the way, that Sir Francis Burdett was taken to the T owe r, having sustained a memorable siege, what time the Sergeant-at-Arms, according to a poetaster of the day, serenaded the famous politician The lady she sate and she played on the lute, And she ...

Published: Wednesday 09 December 1896
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3168 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs