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| Picture No | 10699050 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | Duchess of Westminster at her sewing machine, WW1 |
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The Duchess of Westminster busy with her sewing machine making hospital clothes for the wounded during the First World War. The Tatler reports that the Duchess was equipping a field hospital (she would later open her hospital at the casino in Le Touquet) and superintending the preparation of Gifford House, Roehampton. Constance Edwina Lewes, CBE (formerly Grosvenor, née Cornwallis-West; 1876 − 21 January 1970), also known as Shelagh, was a British socialite and peeress. She was the first wife of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (known as Bend'or), one of the richest men in the world at the time.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 26 August 1914 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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