DLA096-0091  Transcription

The Westminster Gazette, 25 July 1925

London, Friday Night.

Although the day was less sunny than last Tuesday for the Royal Garden Party, the Queen wore a hat with quite a brim, which was covered with mauve, brown, pink and white ostrich feathers. Her dress was of blue crepe georgette beaded in panels with blue and crystal paillettes and with a quaint back panel of grey crepe georgette.

It was, however, the little Duchess of York who carried off the chief honours in her rather long frock of cream crepe romaine beaded with pearls, girdled with pearls and with heavy bishop sleeves, also embroidered in pearls. With this she wore a cream crinoline straw hat with two flame-coloured ostrich feathers on either side and a rather incongruous sunshade, who one side and green the other.

SOME PRESENTATIONS.

Others in the Royal party were Lady Patricia Ramsay, in cream lace and a red rose in her beige hat, the Queen of Greece,  in grey, with a blue hat, and Lady May Cambridge,in floral chiffon and a brown hat.

The Duke of Connaught arrived very late indeed, and sauntered into the the Royal tea-tent carrying a wonderful umbrella with a green handle. Among the people presented to the King I noticed Mrs. De Laszlo, with a big lace-wreathed hat, with her husband, and Sir Edward Clarke, who is over eighty, but was resplendent in a grey frock coat, the best pair of whiskers I have yet seen,  and a red carnation buttonhole.

Lady Oxford drove up very early, all in white chiffon, with long black earrings and a black velvet hat. Lord and Lady Vaux of Harraden were there, the Hon. Sybil Portman, and this year’s debutante, the Hon. Maud Pelham. Mr. and Mrs. Amery and Lady Alexander, with an ostrich feather attached to her parasol handle, were among the many guests.

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