BEING CLEOPATRA: Being Cleopatra: Lady Paget

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Being Cleopatra: Lady Paget


Photographed by the Lafayette Studio of Bond Street, london at The Devonshire House Ball of 1897

Lady Paget (1839-1929) was a diarist, writer and a very good friend of Queen Victoria. She was a lady-in-waiting to the Prussian Crown Princess and then later married the British Ambassador to Copenhagen. She was one of the people who orchestrated the marriage arrangement of the Prince of Whales, Edward VII, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark. Lady Paget died from burns after falling asleep too close to the fireplace when she was 90-years-old.



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