Stock Photo - The Duchess of Westminster busy with her sewing machine making hospital clothes for the wounded during the First World War. The Tatler reports that the Duchess was equipping a field hospital (she would later open her hospital at the casino in Le Touquet) and superintending the preparation of Gifford House, Roehampton. Constance Edwina Lewes, CBE (formerly Grosvenor, nÚe Cornwallis-West; 1876 − 21 January 1970), also known as Shelagh, was a British socialite and peeress. She was the first wife of Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster (known as Bend'or), one of the richest men in the world at the time.

Stock Photo: The Duchess of Westminster busy with her sewing machine making hospital clothes for the wounded during the First World War.

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