Images Dated 14th July 2021

Raine McCorquodale at the Vacani matinee at the Hippodrome

Raine McCorquodale, daughter of the novelist, Barbara Cartland, performing as a canary in the charity matinee held by pupils of Madame Vacani's dancing school at the London Hippodrome in June 1937. The matinee was held in aid of the children's ward of the South London Women's Hospital. Raine later became Mrs Gerald Legge and then, on her second marriage to Earl Spencer, the stepmother of Diana, Princess of Wales. Date: 1937

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