Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Country Life Magazine Portrait August 2 2001

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, August 2, 2001. CXCV No. 31

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, celebrates her 101st birthday on Saturday. Queen Elizabeth is shown here in her birthday garden at Walmer Castle, her official residence as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Designed by Penelope Hobhouse, the garden was presented to Her Majesty as a 95th birthday present by English Heritage. This is Queen Elizabeth's 30th appearance as COUNTRY LIFE's frontispiece...

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.