Pearls before Poppies
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Painting by Gerald Moira of the No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital at Doullens. (©Beaverbrook Collection of War Art, Canadian War Museum: CWM 19710261-0427)
Constance Edwina (Shelagh), Duchess of Westminster, looking flirtatious. (© LaFayette/Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
The Duchess of Westminster dressed as a nurse, with her dog. (© Mary Evans Picture Library)
A ward in the Duchess of Westminster’s Hospital. (© Mary Evans Picture Library)
The St Germans’ wedding. (© Illustrated First World War online/ Mary Evans Picture Library)
Blanche St Germans after the death of her husband, looking desperately sad in a large hat and pearls. (© National Portrait Gallery Picture Library)
Violet Astor looking poignant in her pearls, 1917. (© Mary Evans Picture Library)
Violet Astor looking happy again after her second marriage, in a large hat and pearls. (© Philip Astor)
The Grafton Galleries poster for the Red Cross Pearls Exhibition. (Imperial War Museum/ © British Red Cross Society)
Queen Alexandra attending the Red Cross Pearls Exhibition on 22 June 1918. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2018, RCIN 2303822 b)
Queen Mary looking at pearls at the exhibition on 22 June 1918. (Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2018, RCIN 2303822 a)
Lord Kitchener and Julian Grenfell. (© The Rt Hon. N. Viscount Gage/British Library, 10864, p.27)
Lord Lansdowne and his grandson, both in soldiers’ uniforms. (© Trustees of the Bowood Collection)
Cartoon of Christie’s Red Cross Auction by Max Beerbohm. (© Christie’s, 2018)
Cartoon ‘Objects of Desire, For the Wounded’. (© Christie’s, 2018)
The pearl necklaces, photographed in the Red Cross Auction Catalogue. (© British Red Cross Society)