Costume Ball (35 photos)

Took place July 2, 1897 at the residence of the Duchess of Devonshire in Piccadilly. Costume ball was timed to diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria as Queen of England.

Lord Danraven - Cardinal Mazarin.



Lord Wroughton - Archbishop of Canterbury



Lord and Lady Emptill - Knight of the Round Table of King Arthur and his lovely lady





Lady Emptill - Madame de Lamballe



Madame von Andro - Desdemona



Baron von Andro - Benvenuto Cellini



Lady Eshburton - Enid



Marquis Tillibardin and Lord George Murray Stewart - Scottish gentlemen of the late 18th century



Mrs. Burke Elgernon - Salammbo: Battle for Carthage



Miss William Forbes - Archduchess Elizabeth, the era of Maria Theresa



Dalkes Countess - Elena, Countess Dalkes



Lady Cardross and Muriel Erskine - Comtesse de Lavis and the Marquis du Luc Vintimill



Countess Cadogan - Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia



Lady Archibald Campbell - goddess Artemis



Lord Camden - dressed as Louis XV



George Cavendish Bentinck - William, Baron Bentinck



Henry Chaplin - General Lefebvre





Lady Randolph Churchill - Empress Theodora



George Cornwallis-West - a black slave



Lady Rosa Lee - Duchesse de Villars



Lady Florence Delamere - Hortense de Beauharnais



Duchess of Devonshire - Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra



Victor Cavendish - Ambassador Jean de Dintevill



Countess of Dudley - Queen Esther



The Prince of Wales - the head of the Knights of Malta



Duke and Duchess of Fife - in the costumes of Henry II



William Fitzwilliam - Lord Nelson



Mrs. Claude Cole-Hamilton - Amy Robsart



Duke and Duchess of York - Duke Kumberlendsky and court lady Marguerite de Valois



Mrs. Arthur Paget - Cleopatra



Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and Countess de Thorby - Heinrich XIV and Gabrielle d'Estrées



Countess of Warwick - Marie Antoinette



Viscountess Curzon - Queen Mary Leshchinskaya