Michael Gallery

Michael Foot, Labour politician, giving a speech

Michael Foot (Michael Mackintosh Foot, 1913-2010), British Labour politician and writer, Leader of the Opposition 1980-1983, CND supporter, and the oldest sitting member of the House of Commons 1987-1992. Seen here giving a speech, probably at a Labour Party conference, watched by Tony Benn (Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn, formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, b 1925) and Judith Hart (Baroness Hart of South Lanark, 1924-1991)

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Mrs (later Lady) Dorothy D'Oyly Carte, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cranbrook

Mrs (later Lady) Dorothy D'Oyly Carte, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cranbrook and wife of Rupert D'Oyly Carte, the impresario behind Gilbert and Sullivan and the Savoy Hotel, pictured with her two children, Bridget and Michael. Michael was tragically killed in a car crash in Switzerland in 1932, aged 21. Date: 1919

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Prince Philip of Greece & Milford Havens at Maidenhead

Celebrities at the Maidenhead Fishery Club in 1931. From left, the Marchioness of Milford Haven, formerly Countess Nada Torby, daughter of Grand Duke Michael of Russia, her daughter, Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, the Marquess of Milford Haven (formerly Prince George of Battenberg), Prince Philip of Greece (now Duke of Edinburgh), the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, formerly Princess Victoria of Hesse (Princess Louis of Battenberg), daughter of Princess Alice and granddaughter of Queen Victoria. On the right is the Count de Torby, Nada's brother Michael. Prince Philip would regularly spend school holidays with the Milford Havens - George was his uncle on his mother's side and the dowager Marchioness his grandmother. Date: 1931

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