Miss Harriet and Polly Parsons Country Life Magazine Portrait March 22 2001

Miss Harriet Parsons and Miss Polly Parsons Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, March 22, 2001. CXCV No. 12

Miss Harriet and Polly Parsons - Harriet and Polly, 25, are the twin daughters of Mr and Mrs Shaun Parsons, of Winstone Glebe, Cirencester, Gloucestershire. Harriet (left) is doing the Kew Diploma in Horticulture and has also set up a garden design service. In June, she will go plant hunting in Sikkim, for which she has been awarded a travel scholarship by Kew. Polly is a fashion designer, with her own company, and also cooks directors' lunches at Sotheby's. The sisters are photographed in the Princess of Wales glasshouse at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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.