Miss Venetia Taylor Country Life Magazine Portrait December 18 1926

Miss Venetia Taylor Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, December 18 1926. LX No. 1561

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Miss Venetia Taylor, daughter of Captain and Mrs. J. V. Taylor. Miss Taylor's marriage to the Earl of Cottenham is to take place in January.

• Bride: Sybil Venetia Taylor (known as Venetia), daughter of Captain John Vickris Taylor and Sybil Mary Hopkinson.
• Groom: Mark Everard Pepys, 6th Earl of Cottenham (1903–1943). He was a well-known racing driver and later an MI5 officer.
• Sybil Venetia Taylor and Mark Everard Pepys, the 6th Earl of Cottenham, had two daughters before their divorce in 1939
• Lady Rose Edith Idina Pepys (1927–2021)
• Lady Paulina Mary Louise Pepys (1930–2017)
• The couple eventually divorced in 1939. Venetia Taylor subsequently married Charles Christopher Courtenay, the 17th Earl of Devon
• After their marriage ended, Venetia Taylor married Charles Christopher Courtenay, the 17th Earl of Devon. With him, she had two more children: Lady Katherine Felicity Courtenay and Hugh Rupert Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon
• The 6th Earl of Cottenham died in 1943 without a male heir (referred to in peerage terms as "without male issue"), so the title of Earl of Cottenham passed to his younger brother, John Digby Thomas Pepys

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.