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A Glimpse of Empire

March 15, 2012 - March 18, 2012

Jessica Douglas-Home
Jessica Douglas-Home | Lilah Wingfield | Edition of 25 | 8 x 10 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | LW & Ayah outside her tent | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Queen at the State Entry into Delhi | Edition of 25 | 15 x 10 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Sylvia Brooke outside tent | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Queen at the State Entry into Delhi | C – print | 15 x 10 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Self in Chandni Chowk – Delhi | Edition of 25 | 11.5 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Furthermost border of the British frontier with armed escort, LW | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Mrs FitzRoy | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Maloja (in the background) docks in Aden. The bunting is up to welcome King George and Queen Mary within the week. | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah in Aden | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | UT | C – print | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah arrived in Bombay harbour on 28 November. She took this picture with her Kodak from her cabin porthole. | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Grand Trunk Road into Delhi | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah’s first sight of The Tented City, after a two day train journey from Bombay | Edition of 25 | 15 x 10 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Tradesmen showing their wares in the 10th Hussars encampment. Sylvia Brooke and her brother Basil (centre couple), a captain in the Hussars. | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Col. Barnes of the 10th Hussars off duty with ‘Major’ | Edition of 25 | 6 x 5 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah borrowed a horse in the Tented City for her first ride in five years | Edition of 25 | 6 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Ruling Princes and their entourages started arriving by train in early December, at the rate of nine or ten a day | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Maharana of Udaipur. The most revered of the maharajas, he was held in such awe that the Viceroy created a special role for him during the Durbar to ensure his loyalty. The plan failed. | Edition of 25 | 6 x 8 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Ruling Princes and their entourages started arriving by train in early December, at the rate of nine or ten a day | C – print | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | UT | C – print | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The entrance gate to the Tented City, blazoned with the words | Edition of 25 | 5 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Gaikwar of Baroda paid homage peremptorily to the King Emperor. Afterwards he turned his back on him, causing a major political scandal. | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Towards the end of the garden party, the King and Queen went into one of the marble palaces and reappeared in crowns and robes, with their princely pages by their side, to step onto the balcony | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | UT | C – print | 10 x 15 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Procession in front of the Royal couple during the People’s Fete | Edition of 25 | 10 x 8 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Gerald Stewart, a captain in the 10th Hussars, who lost his heart to Lilah during the Durbar. He was to be killed three years later in the Great War. | Edition of 25 | 6 x 8 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The King and Queen departing from Delhi after the Durbar celebrations | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah sets off early for the Khyber Pass in a tonga behind her friends | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah and Judy Smith eating a sandwich on the Khyber Pass | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah in Colombo before catching the S.S.Malwa to England | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | UT | C – print | 6 x 8 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The theosophist Annie Besant joined Lilah on the ship with Krishnamurti (right), who she believed was the new Messiah. She caused a sensation at the station when she arrived in London. | Edition of 25 | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Within a month of returning to her elderly mother, who was awaiting her arrival in Harley Street, Lilah had met the MP Clive Morrison-Bell. She became engaged to him immediately. | Edition of 25 | 6 x 5 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Once the King had passed through the Delhi Gate, the Ruling Princes followed in a glorious procession of ancient tradition, wild exuberance and colour | Edition of 25 | 15 x 10 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah caught the eye of her friend the young Maharaja of Jodhpur, waved and took his photograph. His political adviser is on his left. | Edition of 25 | 8 x 11.5 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah caught the eye of her friend the young Maharaja of Jodhpur, waved and took his photograph. His political adviser is on his left. | C – print | 8 x 6 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Procession of the King Emperor and Queen Empress approaching the great Cathedral Mosque of India on their way to Jama Musjid | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | Lilah’s photograph of The Royal couple preparing to receive homage from the Ruling Princes (the much larger Royal shamiana where they will soon move is 100 feet behind) | Edition of 25 | 11.7 x 8.3 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The King-Emperor receiving homage from the Ruling Prince of Burma | C – print | 10 x 8 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The King-Emperor receiving homage from the Ruling Prince of Burma | Edition of 25 | 10 x 8 inchesJessica Douglas-Home | The Gaikwar of Baroda appeared in the amphitheatre in his jewels. Before paying homage to the King Emperor, he stripped them off. | Edition of 25 | 8 x 10 inches