CARNEGIE, LORD & LADY
Neg No: COPY GP (L) 9032
Neg. Size: 15"x12"
Neg. Date: None

Subject: Wedding portrait of HH Princess Maud of Fife and Captain Lord Carnegie of the Scots Guards.

Sitters: HH Princess Maud (Alexandra Victoria Bertha), Countess of Southesk (1893-1945), née Lady Maud Duff, grand-daughter of King Edward VII; Charles Alexander Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk (1893-1992).

Date: 12 November 1923.

Location: St James's Palace. ^⁽¹⁾

Descr: Full length, standing.

Costume: -

Costume Supplier: (Bride) Madame Barolet, 51, Knightsbridge.

Jewellery: (Bride) Pearl and diamond sautoir, diamond and platinum bracelet (wedding gifts from bridegroom?).

Orders, Decorations and Medals: (Bridegroom) British War Medal 1914-1920 (CK)

Photographer: -

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Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.

No of poses: -

References:

Biog: Dictionary of National Biography; Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd ed., Burke's Royal Families of the World, Vol. 1, p 309; Burke's Peerage; The Court Journal, 15 June, 1923.

Occasion: The Times, 13 November 1923, p 15e.

Costume: (The Bride) The Queen, 15 November 1923, p 587.

Jewellery: The Times, 10 November 1923, p 9d

Orders, Decorations and Medals: A.R. Litherland & B.T. Simpkin, Spinks Standard Catalogue of British and Associated Orders, Decorations & Medals, London, 1990, p 120.

Reproduced: -

Acknowledgements: -

1. "Immediately after the ceremony the bride and bridegroom will drive to the garden entrance of St. James's Palace to be photographed, and they will afterwards proceed to Portman-square where the reception will be held." (The Times, 12 November 1923, p 15e.)