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Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980); Lady Anne Coke on her wedding day to Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner; image 1
Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980); Lady Anne Coke on her wedding day to Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner; image 2
Lady Glenconner: My Life in Objects
Lot 25AR

Cecil Beaton
(British, 1904-1980)
Lady Anne Coke on her wedding day to Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner

19 November 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£200 - £300

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Cecil Beaton (British, 1904-1980)

Lady Anne Coke on her wedding day to Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, 21 April 1956
Silver gelatin print, mounted to card, the card signed 'Beaton' (lower left) and with photographer's ink-stamp credit to reverse of the card
image 23.75 x 18.75cm
sheet 40.25 x 27.5cm (unframed)

Footnotes

Of her wedding day, Lady Glenconner wrote: 'On 21 April 1956 we got married in St Withburga's Church on the Holkham estate. Once again, I stood on the marble stairs, just as I had done for my coming-out dance, but this time in my Norman Hartnell wedding dress, with the very handsome Coke diamond necklace, instead of my debutante dress made from a parachute, and I breathed it all in. This time I wasn't rushing off to offer champagne to the workers, having not been asked to dance. This time I was the bride of Colin Tennant, the socialite of our generation, on the verge of being an independent married woman.'

Literature
Anne Glenconner, Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, Hodder & Staughton, London, 2019, pp.87-88.

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