Front cover of The Illustrated London News Wedding Number mb-code 42-41386874 He took the world water

He took the world water speed record in 1937 with a speed of 129

centred on the South Sea Company which had been founded in order to trade with Spanish America on the assumption that the War of the Spanish Succession would end soon with a favourable treaty allowing trading

A French officer overcomes a group of German infantrymen with the aid of his sword

Interior of Charterhouse Chapel

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Front cover of The Illustrated London News Wedding Number mb-code 42-41386874 He took the world waterFront cover of The Illustrated London News Wedding Number, 28th April 1923. Commemorating the wedding of Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon and the Duke of York (the future King George VI).