Genevieve Clendenin and Marion Tiffany (late 1910s)
Painter, printmaker and socialite Genevieve Clendenin (1896-1974) (on the right) and her friend, socialite Marion Tiffany (1895-1990) photographed in the late 1910s. There is no information about the occasion, but to me it looks like they are attending a horse race. My colorization of a Bain News Service image in the Library of Congress archive.
The two young ladies had a busy social life at the time. On July 5, 1919 the Richmond Palladium reported:
"The younger set in Newport and Washington are going to be more than anxious during the next few weeks awaiting the expected arrival of the Crown Prince of Wales in this country. There will be many of the young debutantes who will think of nothing but a possible introduction to the young prince. Miss Genevieve Clendenin is one of a very small and exclusive colony of American society girls who will act as partners for the prince during his stay in Newport Miss Clendenin is at present spending the early summer with her parents at their summer home at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson, but she expects to go to Newport around Aug. 1, to be the house guest of Miss Tiffany, who will also meet the future English king."
That visit of the future Edward VIII did apparently not lead to a royal romance, but as we all know, later (in 1930) the prince met and fell in love with a married American woman, Mrs Wallis Simpson ...
Genevieve Clendenin and Marion Tiffany (late 1910s)
Painter, printmaker and socialite Genevieve Clendenin (1896-1974) (on the right) and her friend, socialite Marion Tiffany (1895-1990) photographed in the late 1910s. There is no information about the occasion, but to me it looks like they are attending a horse race. My colorization of a Bain News Service image in the Library of Congress archive.
The two young ladies had a busy social life at the time. On July 5, 1919 the Richmond Palladium reported:
"The younger set in Newport and Washington are going to be more than anxious during the next few weeks awaiting the expected arrival of the Crown Prince of Wales in this country. There will be many of the young debutantes who will think of nothing but a possible introduction to the young prince. Miss Genevieve Clendenin is one of a very small and exclusive colony of American society girls who will act as partners for the prince during his stay in Newport Miss Clendenin is at present spending the early summer with her parents at their summer home at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson, but she expects to go to Newport around Aug. 1, to be the house guest of Miss Tiffany, who will also meet the future English king."
That visit of the future Edward VIII did apparently not lead to a royal romance, but as we all know, later (in 1930) the prince met and fell in love with a married American woman, Mrs Wallis Simpson ...