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The Embassy Gardens in Post-War Recovery
March 16, 2014 · by A History of The Gardens of the Ambassador's Residence, British Embassy, Washington · in Ambassador & Lady Caccia, Ambassador & Lady Franks, Ambassdor Makins & Lady Makins, British Ambassador's Residence Washington, British Embassy Gardens, British Embassy Washington, Henri Blanluet, Lady Lindsay, Lord Inverchapel, Massachusetts Avenue, Mildred Barnes Bliss, Perry Wheeler, Robert Woods Bliss, Royal Garden Party, Sir Edwin Lutyens · Leave a comment
The Immediate Post-War Years The monarch’s birthday celebration in the gardens of British Embassy, last held in 1938, was revived in June 1947. The ambassador who greeted guests entering through the wooden Lutyens garden gate was the unconventional, if not eccentric, Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel. Wearing white linens, he presided over a more […]
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