Miss Alexine Wheen Country Life Magazine Portrait September 14 2000

Miss Alexine Wheen Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, September 14, 2000. CXCIV No. 37

Miss Alexine Wheen - The second of our frontispieces photographed at Rock in Cornwall is Alexine, aged 18, the fourth daughter of Commander Peter Wheen, RN, and Mrs Wheen, of The Chestnuts, Codford St Mary, Wiltshire. She has completed A levels at St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, and will spend part of a gap year working in a hospital in Africa, before taking a degree course in physiotherapy.

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.