Miss Katharine Houston Country Life Magazine Portrait July 6 2000

Miss Katharine Houston Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, July 6, 2000. CXCIV No. 27

Miss Katharine Houston, daughter of Dr Thomas Houston, of Earlsdon, Warwickshire, and of Mrs Caroline Houston, of Eastbourne, East Sussex, is to be married to Mr Dominic Mahony, son of Commander John Mahony, RN, and Mrs Mahony, of Alverstoke, Hampshire. Katie, a business analyst with the financial brokers Instinet, is pictured here with her Dutch warmblood Rocky, star of the film Shergar.

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.