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Picture No 11070775
Date 1938
Description Mrs Charles Sweeny
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Mrs Charles Sweeny, formerly Miss Margaret Whigham, later the notorious Duchess of Argyll, pictured wearing rubies at the Beau Geste Ball at Claridge's. She was one of nine society women chosen to display half a million pounds worth of jewels between them.
Source Photograph by Fayer in The Sketch, 14 December 1938
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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