Picture No | 12021257 |
Date | 1932 |
Description | Social celebrities at a dinner in Cairo, 1932 |
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Groups chatting and pulling faces while at dinner at the newly-opened Embassy Club in Cairo. Significant at the far end of the table is Miss Margaret Whigham (later Mrs Charles Sweeny, then Duchess of Argyll) and the Earl of Warwick. A popular debutante, Margaret and the Earl got engaged while in Cairo, to much excitement in the gossip columns, but she later broke it off just a few weeks before the wedding.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sketch, 10 February 1932 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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