Waving 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

Summer Holidays in Holland and Belgium

Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in Holland and Belgium, Cook's World Travel Service. A young woman in a short green dress stands on the beach waving a handkerchief. A seaside resort can be seen behind her

© Thomas Cook Archive/Mary Evans Picture Library

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Girls waving at an early Aviator flying overhead

The Aviator is the only man girls look up to A very beautifully drawn and interesting postcard, with strong leaning toward the Women's Suffrage movement during this period in the United Kingdom. These strong and confident women see that the only time it is necessary to look up at a man is when he is flying above in an aeroplane. Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection