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The Debutantes Birthday Ball - Queen Charlotte's

Scenes at Grosvenor House for Queen Charlotte's Ball, the pinnacle of the Season for a debutante by the 1950s, showing the girls arriving in their white dresses, finishing touches in the ladies room and the traditional cake cutting ceremony, in this instance by the President of the Ball, Lady Hamond-Graeme, with the maids-of-honour, 200 in all, each taking a piece away

Picture No
13989981
Media ID
45428148
Size
5054px x 3454px (2.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Illustrations by Hartland for The Sketch, 24 May 1950
Date
1950

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