Balcony Gallery

Royal Wedding 1947

A page from The Tatler entitled, Happiness was the Keynote with two photographs of the wedding day of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) on 20 November 1947. The top picture shows the royal family on the balcony with the newlywed couple waving to crowds. The bottom picture shows the bridegroom's mother, Princess Andrew of Greece (holding handbag) and five of the bridesmaids, Lady Elizabeth Lambart, Lady Caroline Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Miss Diana Bowes-Lyon, the Hon. Margaret Elphinstone and Lady Pamela Mountbatten waiting to wave farewell to the Princess and the Duke as they left for Waterloo on their way to Romsey where they would spend the first part of their honeymoon at Broadlands, the country seat of Earl Mountbatten. Date: 1947

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Union-Castle Holiday Tours

Advertising travel poster for Union-Castle Holiday Tours depicting a colourful Mediterranean scene with white balcony and blue sea, offering reduced return fares to Madeira, the Canary Islands, South Africa, the Mediterranean, Belgium, Holland and Germany. The Union-Castle shipping line operated passenger and mail ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977

© Mary Evans Picture Library/ONSLOW AUCTIONS LIMITED

Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Fourah Bay College, Mount Aureol, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Founded in 1827 by the Church Missionary Society as an Anglican missionary school, it is the oldest university in West Africa. Date: circa 1912

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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