Veil Collection (page 6)

Lady in communion dress on a lacy greetings card
Lady in communion dress in a church on a lacy greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Copland & Lye women's latest fashion 1887
Latest styles in Victorian winter dresses from Paris, women could get their own material made-up into dresses. Date: 1887

Lady with Lady Spirit
From: The Veil Lifted, Andrew Glendinning of London, Whittaker, 1894 Lady with Lady Spirit in front of her. Apparition, ghost, phantom, spectre, spirit. Date: 1894

Lady Spirit
From: The Veil Lifted, Andrew Glendinning of London, Whittaker, 1894 Lady Spirit wearing shroud and holding flowers. Apparition, ghost, phantom, spectre, spirit. Date: 1894

Spirit child
From: The Veil Lifted, Andrew Glendinning of London, Whittaker, 1894 Spirit child wearing shroud. Apparition, ghost, phantom, spectre, spirit. Date: 1894

King George V, Queen Mary, Princess Marys wedding
King George V and Queen Mary, with their daughter Princess Mary (Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood) and Lord Lascelles (later 6th Earl of Harewood) on their wedding day, 28 February 1922

Alexandra Feodorovna - wife of Nicholas II of Russia
Alexandra Feodorovna - (Alix of Hesse), (1872 - 1917). Granddaughter of Queen Victoria and wife of Nicholas II of Russia. Date: 1917

Lalla Rookh, long narrative poem by Thomas Moore
She found that the short dream of happiness was over -- the title character of Lalla Rookh, a long narrative poem by Thomas Moore, first published in 1817. 19th century

Advert for La Samaritaine womens clothing 1906
Selection of fashionable clothing for women, available at La Samaritaine, a large department store in Paris. 1906

Cartoon, Disraeli and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, Opening Parliament. Benjamin Disraeli wheels Queen Victoria to Westminster in her bathchair. 1880

Cutting Wedding Cake
A caterer in gloves explains how long in took to make their wedding cake as the newlyweds slice into the bottom tier! Date: 1960s

Norman Costume C11Th
Normans: embroidered super- tunic with wide sleeves, kirtles, mantle tied with cord, veil or phrygian cap, tunic, super-tunic, mantle & phyrgian bonnet. Date: 11th century

German Nobles C. 1425
Man: sleeveless, fur-lined & trimmed loose fitting garment, hose, piked shoes (cracowes) & a dagged cap. Woman: long mantle with a dagged border. Date: circa 1425

German Dress C14Th
Woman: goffered veil & wimple, kirtle with buttoned sleeves, loose fitting gown, girdle & pouch. Man: dagged cape, gipon (doublet), girdle, piked shoes & hat with an up-turned brim. Date: 14th century

English Costume Mid C14
Woman: cote-hardie with long tippets, kirtle buttoned over the hands, ornamental fillet, veil & plaits coiled over the ears. Men: mantle, fur hood, houppelande, girdle & pouch. Date: 1365 - 1376

Arab Dancing Girl
An Arabic woman dances with a veil

Marriage HRH The Princess Margaret & Anthony Armstrong-Jones
The marriage of HRH The Princess Margaret (1930-2002) to Anthony Armstrong-Jones, (1st Earl of Snowdon) ( (1930-2017). The couple pictured kneeling before the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Geoffrey

Belinda Belville wedding dress, 1965
A Camelot-style wedding dress and veil of nun-like simplicity in translucent white organdie with a wide border of guipure lace and the cuffs and hem, also trimming the veil and train

Ultragotha, Queen of the Franks, wife to Childebert I.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204), Queen of Henry II.. Handcolored engraving from Civil Costume of England from the Conquest to the Present Period drawn by Charles Martin and etched by Leopold Martin

Costumes of Tripoli, Libya, woman in burqa and veil, man in turban.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Spanish lady in red dress on greetings card, Gibraltar
Spanish lady in a red dress and white lace veil on a greetings card, Gibraltar. Date: 20th century

Wedding Cake Cutting
John Hope Fellows and his new wife, Ellen Milligan, pictured cutting the first slice of the wedding cake at their wedding in Wilmington, Kent Date: 1924

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna
Grand Princess Elizaveta Feodorova (Grand Duchess Sergei), formerly Princess Elisabeth or Ella or Hesse Darmstadt, dressed as a Sister of Mercy of the reek Church, the Order of Martha and Mary

Algerian women in traditional costume. Date: circa 1870

Egyptian women carrying water. Date: circa 1870

A Woman from Shqipnija, Albania in traditional costume holding a very fine ruffled umbrella Date: circa 1910s

Arabic Greeting - Egypt - As-salamu alaykum
As-salamu alaykum - an Arabic greeting often used by Muslims around the world. Translates as Peace be upon you. Here, a Woman (wearing a veil and an Egyptian Brass Arousa el Burka)

Wedding - Crown Prince of Sweden and Lady Louise Mountbatten
The Wedding of Crown Prince Adolf of Sweden (1882-1973) and Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten (1889-1965) on 3rd November 1923 at St. Jamess Palace, London

Egyptian souvenir postcard - Sphinx, Oasis and Woman
Early pictorial Egyptian souvenir postcard featuring deictions of the Sphinx, an Oasis and an Egyptian bedouin woman from Cairo, wearing an Arousa el Burqa (literally the Bride of the Veil)

Royal Wedding 1947. The Wedding Dress
The dress designed for Princess Elizabeth by Norman Hartnell of ivory duchesse satin with hand embroidery on the skirt and bodice and Court train (fifteen feet long and of ivory tulle)

Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburghs wedding dress
A sketch showing the profusely embroidered wedding dress worn by Princess Victoria Melita for her marriage to Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse on 19th April 1894 at Coburg

Royal Wedding 1981 - Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
The newly married Prince and Princess of Wales wave to waiting crowds as they emerge from St. Pauls Cathedral following their wedding on 29 July 1981. Date: 1981

Royal Wedding 1986 - the bride on her way to the Abbey
Lady Sarah Ferguson, later Duchess of York, just visible through the windows of the royal coach as she travels to Westminster Abbey for her marriage to Prince Andrew, Duke of York on 23 July 1986

Royal wedding of Henry Abel Smith to Lady May Cambridge, 1931
Lady May Cambridge(1906 - 1994), Daughter of the Earl and Countess of Athlone (Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice), on the occasion of her marriage to Sir Henry Abel Smith(1900-1993)

Little girl in confirmation dress
A little girl dressed all in white for her (Roman Catholic) confirmation. Date: circa 1930s

Mary Churchill in Switzerland, 1946
Mary Churchill expresses her gratitude to her host for the wonderful reception they had recived from the people of Berne, during her visit to Switzerland with her father, Winston Churchill. Date: 1946

Syrian Bedouin Women - Costume series (3 / 3)
Costume styles of five Bedouin women. Only one is veiled, another plays the tamborine and another wears expansive golden circle jewellery as a headdress. Date: circa 1910s

King Faruk and Queen Farida of Egypt after their wedding
King Faruk(1920-1965) and his bride at the banquet given at the Koubbeh Palace in Cairo: an occasion when Queen Farida discarded the veil she had worn during the marriage ceremonies

Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles wedding
Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, the Princess Royal (1897 - 1965), Countess of Harewood, on her wedding day with her husband, Henry Charles George, Viscount Lascelles

Bedouin Woman with interesting chin tattoo
Bedouin Woman from Egypt with a very interesting chin tattoo

Mali - Tuareg men from Timbucktu
Mali - Two Tuareg men from Timbucktu, holding spears. The Tuareg are a Berber nomadic pastoralist people, known as the People of the Veil

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (1872-1918), formerly Princess Alix of Hesse, married Tsar Nicholas II in 1894 shortly before his accession to the throne

Albanian Woman
A woman from Shkodra, Albania

Tarsus, Turkey - Gate of St. Paul
The Gate of St Paul - Tarsus, Turkey. A city in Mersin Province, near to the city of Adana. With a history going back over 9, 000 years Tarsus has long been an important stop for traders

Wedding Dress 1905
A lady in a wedding dress with train and mob cap headwear with veil; and a woman in a green dress with buttoned sleeves

Princess Maria Theresa Esterhazy

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