Background

Queen Mary and the Indian Watercolours

Queen Mary and the Indian Watercolours In December 1911 Vera travelled to India with her father and sister to stay with her brother Charles Waddington who was headmaster of Mayo College, a school for the sons of Maharajas. Her stay coincided with a visit from Kong George V and Queen Mary. The Queen so admired… Read More

Pangbourne War Memorial – from Vera’s diaries

In August 1919, soon after the birth of her second daughter Veronica in June, Vera decided to try her hand at the Pangbourne War Memorial, inspired, Vera says in her diary, by the war memorial at Mortimer. That Autumn she was working on both her war memorial drawings and those for the Roll of Honour… Read More