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The Duchess of Westminster, WW1

Constance Edwina (nee Cornwallis West), Duchess of Westminster (later Mrs James Fitzpatrick Lewes) (died 1970), First wife of 2nd Duke of Westminster. Known as Shelagh. Pictured at the time she was working as a Red Cross nurse at the front, running her own Red Cross hospital in the converted casino at Le Touquet

Picture No
14105070
Media ID
45623825
Size
3500px x 5318px (1.4MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Bystander, 29 December 1915
Date
1915

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