Picture No | 10504413 |
Date | 1933 |
Description | Wedding of Margaret Whigham and Charles Sweeny |
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The society wedding of the year in 1933; society beauty and media darling, Miss Margaret Whigham, later Duchess of Argyll, to Mr Charles Sweeny, Oxford University golfer at Brompton Oratory in February 1933. The bride's dress with exquisite pearl star embroidery was designed by Norman Hartnell and its fifty foot train stopped the traffic in Knightsbridge where thousands of people turned out to catch a glimpse of the wedding.
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Source | Photograph in The Sketch, 1st March 1933 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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