Bella and Grania Howard Country Life Magazine Portrait October 9 2003

Miss Bella Howard and Miss Grania Howard Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, October 9, 2003. CXCVII No. 41

Miss Bella and Miss Grania Howard - Bella, 17 (behind), and Grania, 14, are the daughters of the Honourable Michael Howard, of Helmsley, Yorkshire, and of Mrs Lou Howard, of Terrington, Yorkshire. Bella is studying for A levels at Queen Margaret's, York, and will spend a gap year travelling before going to art college. Grania, also at Queen Margaret's, hunts with the Middleton and is shown here with her gelding Bailey, a Middleton hound puppy and Pudding, their West Highland terrier..

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 12.5 x 9 inches (32 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details. The reverse side contains unrelated printed text, as issued.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.