Veiled Gallery

Miss Mary Churchill announces her engagement, 1946

Miss Mary Churchill(b. 1922), Mr. Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, announced her engagement on the day this photograph was taken of her, attending the wedding of Lord Burham's daughter, the Hon. Lucia Lawson, and Lord Woolton's son, the Hon. Roger Marquis, at Beaconsfield. Her fiance is Lord Soames, son of Captain Granville Soames.
1946

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West African Tuareg Horse Warriors

West African Tuareg Warriors, in traditional veiled headdresses, all mounted on fine horse and carrying spears and enormous shields. The Tuareg are a Berber nomadic pastoralist people, known as the People of the Veil'. The wearing of the Alasho veil by Tuareg men originates from the belief that such action wards off evil spirits. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Tuareg Tribesmen - Sahara - West Africa - with spears

Tuareg Tribesmen - Sahara - West Africa - posing for this photograph with their spears. Two other Tuareg self-designations are Kel Tamasheq meaning "speakers of Tamasheq", and Kel Tagelmust, meaning "veiled people" in allusion to the tagelmust garment that is traditionally worn by Tuareg men (as shown clearly on this photograph). Date: 1903

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection