Meriel, Viola and Audrey Lyttelton Country Life Magazine Portrait June 13 1925

Meriel Lyttelton, Viola Lyttelton and Audrey Lyttelton Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, June 13 1925. LVII No. 1484

The featured frontispiece is from a photograph of Meriel Lyttelton, Viola Lyttelton and Audrey Lyttelton, three of the four daughters of the Viscount and Viscountess Cobham, who also had a son born in 1909.

The text refers to the children of John Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham, and his wife, Violet Yolande Leonard.

• Meriel Catherine Lyttelton (1911–1930)
• Viola Maud Lyttelton (1912–1987), who later became the Duchess of Westminster
• Audrey Lavinia Lyttelton (1918–2007)
• Lavinia Mary Yolande Lyttelton (1921–2007)
• Charles John Lyttelton (1909–1977), later the 10th Viscount Cobham, an English cricketer who also served as the 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (1957–1962)

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.