Lady Katharine Hamilton Country Life Magazine Portrait July 19 1930

Lady Katharine Hamilton Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, July 19 1930. LXVIII No. 1748

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Lady Katharine Hamilton, youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn.

• Identity: Lady Katharine Hamilton (1900–1985), the youngest daughter of James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, and Rosalind Bingham.
• Royal Service: She was appointed a Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary in 1927, a position of close personal attendance within the Royal Household.
• Family Connections: She served as a bridesmaid at the 1923 wedding of Prince Albert (later King George VI) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother). Through her family, she was also related to Diana, Princess of Wales.
• Engagement and Marriage: Her engagement to Lieut.-Colonel Sir Reginald Seymour, C.V.O., Equerry to King George V, had recently been announced. The couple married on August 6, 1930.
• Sir Reginald Seymour: A distinguished soldier and courtier who served as Equerry in Ordinary to the King for two decades and saw active service in both the South African War and the First World War.
• Legacy: Their son, Major George Raymond Seymour, continued the family’s royal connections, serving as an equerry to the Queen Mother for many years.

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.