Miss Mary Wakefield Country Life Magazine Portrait June 8 2000

Miss Mary Wakefield Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, June 8, 2000. CXCIV No. 23

Miss Mary Wakefield - Mary, aged 25, is the daughter of Sir Humphry Wakefield, Bt, and the Hon Lady Wakefield, of Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. Photographed here wearing family jewellery, Mary graduated from Edinburgh University with a degree in philosophy, and is now a journalist on The Daily Telegraph. She recently won The Spectator's Shiva Naipaul literary prize.

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.