DLA096-0147  Transcription

The Westminster Gazette [5 September 1925]^[1]

LADY JOAN FITZWILLIAM.

Lady Joan Fitzwilliam, whose engagement to Captain G. P. Philipps, of the Grenadier Guards, is just announced, is a girl with almost royal self-possession, due probably to her so frequently deputising for her mother by opening war-time bazaars in South Yorkshire while she was yet a schoolgirl.

Many people think her the most beautiful of Lord and Lady Fitzwilliam’s four daughters. Certainly the portrait of her by Laszlo [111869], which hangs in the famous picture gallery at Wentworth Woodhouse, the family place near Sheffield, is much admired by everyone, including the Prince of Wales, who saw it when he stayed there a few years ago.

Lady Joan Fitzwilliam is specially interested in the new light aeroplane clubs, for though she was but a child in the nursery when her father bought the Bleriot monoplane after it had done the first cross-Channel flight, she has vivid recollections of seeing it at a fete where it was exhibited as a means of raising funds for the local hospital.

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10/02/2008