Duchess Gallery

Tsarina Alexandra nursing wounded soldiers, 1914, (c1920). Creator: Unknown

Tsarina Alexandra nursing wounded soldiers, 1914, (c1920). Imperial Nurses with the Russian Red Cross: the Tsarina (seated on the right) and her daughters nursing wounded soldiers from the eastern theatre of war'. Alexandra Empress of Russia (1872-1918), seen here with her daughters, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna, was engaged in charity work and served as a nurse during the First World War. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume II, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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The Duchess of Westminster with nurses, Le Touquet, First World War, 1914, (c1920)

The Duchess of Westminster with nurses, Le Touquet, First World War, 1914, (c1920). With the Red Cross in France: the Duchess of Westminster (on the right, with her favourite dog) and some of the nurses at her military hospital at Le Touquet'. British peeress and socialite Constance Edwina Lewis (1875-1970) sponsored a military hospital in northern France, which was housed in a local casino. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume II, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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Elisabeth Foster, (1933). Creator: Unknown

Elisabeth Foster, (1933). Portrait of early female British novelist Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1759-1824). Born Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, then Lady Elizabeth Foster, she was close friend of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, but later supplanted her, gaining the affections of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and later marrying him. After a miniature by Richard Cosway. From "Gestalten Der Weltgeschichte", a book of cigarette-card portrait miniatures of figures in world history from the last four hundred years. [Germany, 1933]

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