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  • Short Summary

    Prince and Princess Bibesco leave for America on the Cunard liner Aquitania.

  • Description

    Item title reads - Prince & Princess Bibesco leave for America in giant Cunarder "Aquitania". Mrs Asquith saw her daughter off. Liverpool, Merseyside.

    The passengers board the ship. The couple talk to each other, the camera pans across to another woman standing with them.

    Note: it is not clear whether these three people are Prince & Princess Bibesco and Miss Asquith.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    226.37
    Media URN:
    22094
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    27/01/1921
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:28:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:46:01:00 / 01:46:29:00
    Canister:
    G 741

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  1. Unknown user says

    The woman on the left in this film is Margot Asquith, wife of the former Prime Minister of England, Herbert Asquith. The man is the Romanian Prince Antoine Bibesco, her son-in-law. The third (young) woman is his wife, Princess Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco , 22 years his junior, the only daughter of Margot and Herbert Asquith. The Prince and Princess are on their way to his post as Romanian ambassador to the U.S. (from 1921-1926). Margot thought Bibesco's marriage to her daughter (in 1919) had been a great coup. Was it?

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