The Countess of Wavell, ownes a very nice tiara , for her viceregal offical representations, Durbars and royal appointments in India, she wore also a very large festoon diamond tiara with spikes and large pearls on top, see above in the picture.
Vicereine Of India: Viscountess Wavell
Like her husband, Lady Wavell is no stranger to India, where she had been living since her husband became C-in-C there early this year. In February she accompanied him on a tour of Ceylon, visiting military hospitals and welfare organisations, and is already familiar with all aspects of India's war effort. She staved on in India for some time after Lord Wavell's appointment as Viceroy-designate, and followed him to England with her daughter, Felicity, last July.
A few days after her arrival, Lady Wavell spoke at her first large Press conference, composed entirely of women, praising highly the work of the Indian Women's Army Corps, and of the excellent work they are doing.
A daughter of the late Colonel Owen Quirk, C.B., O.S.O., Lady Wavell was married in 1915, and she and Lord Wavell have a son and three daughters, the youngest of whom married Captain the Hon. Simon Astley, Lord and Lady Hastings' younger son, last January in New Delhi
Engaged to be Married: The Hon. Felicity Wavell
The Hon. Felicity Anne Wavell is the second of Field Marshal Viscount and Viscountess Wavell's three daughters, and her engagement to Captain Peter Maitland Longmore, M.C., has recently been announced. Her fiance is the youngest son of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore and Lady Longmore of Pipits Hill, Wentworth, Surrey. Miss Wavell was in India with her parents when her father was Commander-in-Chief there in 1911, previous to his becoming Supreme Commander in the South-West Pacific in 1942. When Lord Wavell returned to India as Governor-General and Viceroy she worked at G.II.Q. in Delhi. Her two sisters arc the Hon. Mrs. A. F. W. Humphreys and the Hon. Mrs. Simon Astley. The wedding will probably take place in New Delhi in February I
The diamond festoon and pearl tiara was later owned by Lady Verulam click for more history.
Source: Archive Ursula Butschal;Wikipedia;The Times;
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