Lady Kitty Spencer Country Life Magazine Portrait December 9 2009

Lady Kitty Spencer Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, December 9 2009. CCIII No. 49

Lady Kitty Spencer - Kitty, aged 19, is the daughter of Earl Spencer of Althorp, Northamptonshire, and Mrs Victoria Aitken of Cape Town, South Africa. Photographed in Paris before the Crillon Ball, she wears jewellery by Adler and a dress by Bruce Oldfield. Kitty is reading Politics, Psychology and English Literature at the University of Cape Town.

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.