Lady Marguerite Rose Tangye (née Bligh)

1 portrait of Lady Marguerite Rose Tangye (née Bligh)

© William Hustler and Georgina Hustler / National Portrait Gallery, London

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Lady Marguerite Rose Tangye (née Bligh)

by Dorothy Wilding
chlorobromide print, 1937
9 3/8 in. x 11 3/8 in. (238 mm x 289 mm) image size
Given by the photographer's sister, Susan Morton, 1976
Photographs Collection
NPG x27386

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  • Lady Marguerite Rose Tangye (née Bligh) (1913-2002), Society beauty and model; former wife of Claud Strickland and of G.S.K. Haywood, and later wife of N.T. Tangye; daughter of 9th Earl of Darnley. Sitter in 27 portraits.

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  • Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 2179 portraits, Sitter in 30 portraits.

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  • Pepper, Terence, In Pursuit of Perfection: The Photographs of Dorothy Wilding, 1991 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 July 1991 - 29 September 1991), p. 75 Read entry

    In 1937 she showed four portraits: the society beauty Lady Marguerite Strickland (x27386), the American actress Claire Luce, and the new King George VI and his Queen Elizabeth.

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Current affairs

George VI becomes king. The younger brother of Edward VIII was crowned on the 12th May and the coronation was broadcast to Britain and the Empire on the radio. Edward becomes the Duke of Windsor, although the rank of 'Royal Highness' is not extended to Wallis Simpson.
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister following Baldwin's retirement.

Art and science

Roland Penrose organises a tour of Picasso's painting Guernica to the UK. The painting, which shows the horrors of the Spanish Civil War, went on display at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in East London

International

Commercial airship travel is brought to an end with the 'Hindenberg Disaster'. The German airship exploded while landing in New Jersey. The radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison's reaction has become legendary: 'Oh, the humanity!'
Japan invades China, killing about 25,000. Japanese Troops committed numerous atrocities against soldiers and civilians in what became known as the 'Rape of Nanking'.

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