Mr & Mrs Charles Sweeny at the Dorchester

Mr and Mrs Charles Sweeny attending the American Society's Luncheon at the Dorchester in July 1941. Mrs Sweeny, the beautiful daughter of Mr and Mrs George Hay Whigham, works at the American Eagle Squadron Club and her golfing brother-in-law, Robert Sweeny, is in the Squadron foundered by Mrs Charles Sweeny Snr'. According to another photograph elsewhere in The Tatler that year, Charles Sweeny Jnr also joined the Eagle Squadron as a Pilot Officer. Mrs Sweeny was the former Miss Margaret Whigham and later, on her second marriage, the Duchess of Argyll. An unidentified officer of the Squadron is sat between the couple

Argyll Dorchester Sweeny Whigham

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