Romance Gallery

Bystander Royal Wedding Number front cover - George VI

Front cover of The Bystander magazine's Royal Wedding Number, celebrating the marriage of Prince Albert of York (the future King George VI) to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 26 April 1923. Illustration shows a cupid in an aeroplane creating a heart in the sky above Westminster Abbey in front of which the State Coach passes. Date: 1923

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Who People Are Dating - Diane Ferraz and Nicky Scott

Musical duo, and, at the time, romantically linked couple, Diane Ferraz and Nicky Scott who performed together in the band, The Ferris Wheel, pairing black female singers with white male performers, an unusual combination at the time. Featured in London Life as the lead image in a piece on Who People Are Dating. Ferraz was born in Trinidad and the caption comments as follows, Diane Ferrax (sic) and Nicky Scott are really in love, have made a record together, have been boycotted by magazines who disapprove of coloured liaisons. Date: 1966

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

The dangers of getting a personal tattoo

"First of All, Mary, there's something awful I must get off my chest." The dangers of getting a personal tattoo - A dapper gent has to admit to a previous romantic liason to his new young ladyfriend as it is writ large across his chest! Date: circa 1930s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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