Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume and Mr. Roger Wethered Country Life Magazine Portrait October 30 1926

Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume and Mr. Roger Wethered Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, October 30 1926. LX No. 1554

The featured frontispiece this week consists of portraits of Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume and Mr. Roger Wethered, who won the Mixed Foursome Tournament at Worplesdon after a magnificent match against Miss Gourlay and Major Hezlet.

• Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume: A distinguished French golfer and the first overseas player to win the British Ladies Amateur Championship (1927). She later married René Lacoste, and together they founded the Lacoste sportswear brand.
• Mr. Roger Wethered: One of the leading amateur golfers of his era and winner of the British Amateur Championship in 1923.
• The Tournament: The pair secured victory in the 1926 Worplesdon Mixed Foursome Tournament after a notable match against Miss Gourlay and Major Hezlet.

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 13.75 x 9 inches (35 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.

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.