Lady Anne Cavendish Country Life Magazine Portrait July 13 1929

Lady Anne Cavendish Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, July 13 1929. LXVI No. 1695

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Lady Anne Cavendish, published shortly after the announcement of her engagement.

• Identity: Lady Anne Cavendish (1909–1981), the youngest daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, and the Duchess of Devonshire.
• Engagement: Her engagement to Mr. Henry Hunloke, only son of Major Sir Philip Hunloke and Lady Hunloke, had just been announced at the time of publication.
• Henry Hunloke: He served as a page to King George V and came from a distinguished family with strong royal connections.
• Marriage: The couple married on November 28, 1929, at St Margaret’s, Westminster, in a widely noted society wedding.
• Family: They had three children:
  • Philippa Victoria Hunloke (1930–2005): Later Viscountess Astor.
  • Timothy Henry Hunloke (born 1932): An officer in the Grenadier Guards.
  • Nicholas Victor Hunloke (born 1939).
• Later Life: The marriage ended in divorce in 1945. Lady Anne later remarried twice—first to Christopher Holland-Martin and then to the 10th Earl of Sandwich.

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.