Lady Nunburnholme nee Mary Beatrice Thynne Country Life Magazine Portrait November 26 1927

Lady Nunburnholme nee Lady Mary Beatrice Thynne Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, November 26 1927. LXII No. 1610

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Lady Nunburnholme, formerly Lady Mary Thynne, third daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Bath, whose marriage to Lord Nunburnholme took place the previous week.

Lady Mary Beatrice Thynne was the daughter of the 5th Marquess of Bath and had previously served as a bridesmaid to Princess Mary in 1922.

• The Groom: Charles John Wilson, 3rd Baron Nunburnholme, was head of the prominent shipowning firm Thomas Wilson Sons & Co.
• Marriage: The couple married in November 1927.
• Children: They had three children:
  • Ben Charles Wilson (1928–1999), later 4th Baron Nunburnholme
  • Charmaine Elizabeth Violet Cecilia Wilson (1930–2018)
  • Charles Thomas Wilson (1935–2000), later 5th Baron Nunburnholme
• Later Life: The marriage ended in divorce in 1947. Lady Mary later married Sir Ulick Alexander and served as a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Lord Nunburnholme remarried in 1953.

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.