The fashion designer and Royal dressmaker Norman Hartnell, with the Duchess of Argyll and her daughter Frances Sweeney at a cocktail party for overseas fashion buyers at Lancaster House in London, 1956. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)Hulton Deutsch/Getty Images
Another new member was Norman Hartnell, whom Maschwitz described as, ‘A remarkable prima donna’? A modern languages undergraduate at Magdalene College, Hartnell played the female lead in three…

