The Royal Society of Portrait Painters

 

Eminent Members and their guests converged on The Mall to have an early look at some really interesting portraits in the annual exhibition, and to hear former Speaker, Baroness Betty Boothroyd, call everyone to order.  She has lost none of her style, or authority.

 

The distinguished Bruce Forsyth, accompanied by his ever glamorous wife Wilnelia,  came to see Michael Noakes’ sketches.  Bruce confessed that, although much photographed, he had never before,  sat for a portrait.  Lord Chris Patten came to admire his likeness, while the Duchess of Cornwall’s picture gazed in the direction of Lord Geoffrey Howe, who was glancing at Baroness Margaret Thatcher….in oil.

 

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