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Biography of Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde 1893-1975

Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde 1893-1975 is in Photographers.

On 5th January 1893 Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde was born.

1914. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 20). Photograph of Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig (age 6). © National Portrait Gallery.

Alexandra Henrietta Louisa Haig: On 9th March 1907 she was born to Field Marshal Douglas Haig 1st Earl Haig and Dorothy Maud Vivian. In 1997 she died.

1914. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 20). Photograph of Helen Venetia Duncombe Viscountess D'Abernon (age 48). © National Portrait Gallery.

Around 1925. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 31). Photograph of Mary Borden Lady Spears (age 38). © National Portrait Gallery.

1930. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 36). Photograph of Raine Mccorquodale Countess Dartmouth and Spencer. © National Portrait Gallery.

1932. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 38). Photograph of Margaret Whigham Duchess of Argyll (age 19). © National Portrait Gallery.

1932. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 38). Photograph of Margaret Whigham Duchess of Argyll (age 19). © National Portrait Gallery.

1932. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 38). Photograph of Helen Moira Eaton Lady Dashwood (age 32). © National Portrait Gallery.

Helen Moira Eaton Lady Dashwood: On 22nd September 1899 she was born. On 20th December 1922 John Lindsay Dashwood 10th Baronet and she were married. She by marriage Lady Dashwood of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. On 28th June 1989 she died.

1933. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 39). Photograph of Adele Astaire (age 36), Lady Charles Cavendish (age 27). © National Portrait Gallery.

Adele Astaire: On 10th September 1896 she was born. In 1932 Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish and she were married at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire and Evelyn Emily Mary Petty-Fitzmaurice Duchess Devonshire. On 25th January 1981 she died.

1933. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 39). Photograph of Diana Mitford (age 22). © National Portrait Gallery.

1933. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 39). Photograph of Adele Astaire (age 36), Lady Charles Cavendish (age 27). © National Portrait Gallery.

1934. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 40). Photograph on the cover of Tatler of Lady Milbanke (age 35) i.e. Sheila Chisholm.

1935. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 41). Photograph of Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott Duchess Gloucester (age 33). © National Portrait Gallery.

1935. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 41). Photograph of Ismay Lucretia Mary Preston (age 52). © National Portrait Gallery.

Ismay Lucretia Mary Preston: On 29th October 1882 she was born to Jenico Preston 14th Viscount Gormanston. On 16th June 1906 Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart and she were married. He the son of John Crichton-Stuart 3rd Marquis of the Isle of Bute and Gwendolen Mary Anne Fitzalan Howard Marchioness Bute. On 16th February 1975 she died.

1935. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 41). Photograph of Helen Diana Bridgeman (age 27). © National Portrait Gallery.

1935. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 41). Photograph of Helen Diana Bridgeman (age 27). © National Portrait Gallery.

1935. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 41). Photograph of Mary Sibell Ashley-Cooper Baroness Alington (age 32). © National Portrait Gallery.

1935. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 41). Photograph of Margaret Sheila MacKellar Chisholm (age 36) as "Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons". © The Yevonde Portrait Archive.

1935. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 41). Photograph of Marguerite Rose Bligh aka Tangye (age 21)..

1937. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 43). Photograph of Helen Moira Eaton Lady Dashwood (age 37). © National Portrait Gallery.

1943. Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 49). Photograph of Lavinia Mary Strutt Duchess Norfolk (age 26)..

Lavinia Mary Strutt Duchess Norfolk: In 22nd March 1916 she was born to Algernon Strutt 3rd Baron Belper and Eva Isabel Countess Rosebery. On 27th January 1937 Bernard Fitzalan 16th Duke of Norfolk and she were married. She by marriage Duchess Norfolk. She the daughter of Algernon Strutt 3rd Baron Belper and Eva Isabel Countess Rosebery. He the son of Henry Fitzalan Howard 15th Duke of Norfolk and Gwendolen Constable-Maxwell Duchess Norfolk. In 10th December 1995 Lavinia Mary Strutt Duchess Norfolk died.

On 22nd December 1975 Yevonde Cumbers aka Madame Yevonde (age 82) died.