Ambassador Gallery
Available as Framed Photos, Canvas Prints, Wall Art and Gift Items
Choose from 231 pictures in our Ambassador collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Photos, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.
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Mrs Kennedy and her deb daughters
Mrs Joseph Kennedy, wife of H.E. the United States Ambassador, in a photograph to mark the presentation of two of her daughters at the first court at Buckingham Palace in May 1938. On the left is Rosemary Kennedy (1918 - 2005), in the middle Rose Kennedy and on the right, Kathleen Kick Kennedy. Kathleen met Billy Cavendish, heir to the Devonshire dukedom during the Season and married him becoming Marchioness of Hartington. He was killed during World War II and Kathleen herself was killed in a plane crash in 1948. Rosemary, or Rosie, was deemed mentally retarded and was subjected to a frontal lobotomy at the age of 23. She spent much of her life in and out of asylums. Date: 1938
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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The Grand Salon in Dorchester House
Grand Salon of Dorchester House, Park Lane at the time it was the residence of the American Ambassador, Mr Whitelaw Reid. Dorchester House was designed by Lewis Vulliamy for Robert Holford and built on the site of an earlier house belonging to the Earls of Dorchester in 1851 - 53. It was the residence of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, from 1905-13 and served as a hospital during World War I. One of the most impressive and palatial mansions in London, It contained a fine picture gallery, library and was particularly noted for its grand staircase. The house was sold in 1929 and demolished to make way for the Dorchester Hotel. Date: 1906
© Mary Evans Picture Library
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Authors Club reception at Whitehall Court, 1962
Column of photographs reporting on a party for the Authors Club at Whitehall Court in December 1962 at which Sir Charles and Lady Petrie received guests. Top photograph - Sir Charles Petrie, the club's chairman with the Marchioness of Bristol. Middle - Mrs Jo Grimond and Signor Pietro Quaroni, the Italian Ambassador and bottom image, Lady Lenanton (novelist Carola Oman), the Countess of Kilmuir, and Mrs John Profumo (Valerie Hobson). Date: 1962
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
