Monthly Archives: February 2014

The Aftermath of the Royal Garden Party

February 16, 2014 · by · in British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Lady Lindsay, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Ronald Lindsay, Royal Garden Party, Royal Visit 1939, Royal Visit to Washington · Leave a comment

Ronald Lindsay’s tenure as Ambassador to the United States finally came to an end in the summer of 1939, following the King and Queen’s trip to Washington and then on to New York. Lady Lindsay, exhausted from the preparations and attending criticism of those events, struggled to pack up from the Ambassador’s Residence, her main […]

Moving Images: The Royal Visit, British Embassy and Lindsay-Era Washington

February 9, 2014 · by · in British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Lindsay, Ronald Lindsay, Royal Garden Party, Royal Visit 1939, Royal Visit to Washington · Leave a comment

The visit of the King and Queen to the nation’s capital in early June of 1939 was all about images, pageantry and symbolism. The first two videos here demonstrate the careful choreography of the event while offering rare, surviving and openly available views to the British Embassy gardens at the time. The other two films […]

The Royal Garden Party

February 9, 2014 · by · in British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Dumbarton Oaks, Eleanor Belmont, Isabella Greenway, Lady Lindsay, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Ronald Lindsay, Royal Garden Party, Royal Visit 1939, Royal Visit to Washington · Leave a comment

Ambassador Ronald Lindsay was commanded to hold a garden party for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on 8 June 1939, followed the next day by a morning reception for British subjects, and then a dinner, all at the Washington Embassy. These were to be the Lindsays’s last, but by far their most public and […]