Event Collection (page 16)

Engagement of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones
Princess Margaret (1930 - 2002) and her fiance, Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon) reading telegrams of good wishes sent following the announcement of their engagement. Date: 1960

The Empress Hall, Earls Court, 1948 London Olympic Games
The Empress Hall at Earls Court was the venue for Olympic wrestling and weight-lifting. Date: 1948

Wedding of the Shah of Persia in 1960
Farah Diba (born 1938), third wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Persia (Iran), symbolically setting free some caged birds on the day of her wedding, wearing a dress by Christian Dior

Coronation 1953, the Mall illuminated
The Mall, London, leading up to Buckingham Palace, pictured bathed in light as the triumphal arches erected for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 are switched on by the newly crowned

Westminster Abbey prepared for the Coronation, 1953
Illustration of the interior of Wesminster Abbey, looking towards the High Altar and featuring the special chairs used as part of the Coronation Service. Date: 1953

Duchess of Argyll in her Coronation outfit
The Duchess of Argyll (1912 - 1993), previously Miss Margaret Whigham and then Mrs Charles Sweeny, pictured in the dress she wore for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in

Alfonso XIII and Princess Ena of Battenberg engagement
King Alfonso XIII of Spain poses with family and his bride-to-be, Princess Ena of Battenberg, daughter of Princess Beatrice at the Villa Mouriscot in Biarritz where the young king had courted

Princess Ingrid of Sweden on her wedding day
Princess Ingrid of Sweden, pictured on her wedding day to Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark. Her dress of white silk was trimmed with old Irish lace and had an 18 foot train

Princess Margaret of Connaught on her wedding day
The new member of the House of Bernadotte in her bridal robes. Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882 - 1920) in her wedding gown; the overdress and veil were of the most exquisite Carrickmacross lace

Old Testament, Noahs Ark on Mount Ararat
Old Testament -- Noahs Ark, resting on Mount Ararat after the Deluge, with the bodies of drowned people littering the landscape

Investigating UFO landing, Socorro, New Mexico
Socorro, New Mexico: investigating traces of a landed UFO seen by a policeman (Zamora)

RMS Lusitania - en route to New York, August 1912
RMS Lusitania - Hutchinson Archive. Original photograph taken on board the Lusitania en route to New York on 22 August 1912

Recuiting volunteers for bus-driving 1926
Temporary recruiting office in Regents Street, London, for the L.G.O.C (London General Omnibus Company), volunteers queuing outside. May 1926

General Strike 1926: Society women volunteers
In support of the General Strike ladies from society helped, photograph showing volunteers working in Hyde Park, London, in the open air peeling potatoes, Lady Quilter (with tray)

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