Paley Collection

Mme. Lucien Lelong wearing a Lelong design
Madame Lucien Lelong, formerly Princess Nathalie Paley, and wife of the dress designer, pictured modelling one of her husbands designs

Wedding of Princess Irina Pavlovna Paley
Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865 - 1929), the second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860 - 1918), pictured in the wedding party at the marriage of her daughter Princess Irina

Serge Lifar at the Venice Lido
Serge Lifar of the Russian Ballet, burnished by the sun, adopts a balletic pose on the beach at the Venice Lido at the feet of beauty, as represented by Madame Simon Rolo

Society on the beach at Biarritz - with the cartoonist Sem
Count Michael Vorontzov, Marquis de Polginac, the cartoonist Sem (who frequently caricatured society at Biarritz and Deauville), General Trotter, Count de Gaigneron, Count de Lancastre

Society basking on the Lido sands
Well-known personalities of Venetian society sunbathing at the Venice Lido. The Hon. Mrs Evelyn Fitzgerald, Prince Jean de Faucigny-Lucigne, Count Giovanni Sangro de Buccino

Oliver Messel, Mme Lelong and Serge Lifar at Venice Lido
Theatre designer and interior decorator Oliver Messel, Mme Lucien Lelong (Princess Natalie Paley) and the Ballets Russes star

Princess Olga Paley and Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich
Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865 - 1929), the second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860 - 1918) (pictured - left)

Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley and family
Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865 - 1929) and her husband (his second wife) Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860 - 1918)

Reading Football Club - 1904-05 Season. Captain Herbert Smith (1877-1951) - is pictured inset (top right). Smith went on to win gold for the England team at the 1908 Olympic Games

Cecil Beatons bedroom, his guests and his fantails
The top photograph shows Cecil Beaton at home with guests at Ashcombe House; from l-r: Miss Tilly Losch, Mrs Harcourt Smith, Sir Alfred Beit, Lady Charles Cavendish, Miss Tallulah Bankhead

The Countess of Hohenfelsen, Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley, who was married in 1902 in Livorno, to Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, exiled by Tsar Nicolas II

Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley and son
Princess Olga Valerianovna Paley (1865 - 1929), the second wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia (1860 - 1918), pictured with her son Vladimir Pavlovich Paley (1897 - 1918)

William Paley, clergyman, philosopher and utilitarian
William Paley, British clergyman, Christian apologist, philosopher and utilitarian. He became Archdeacon of Carlisle in 1782

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