Royal Ascot celebrates it's 300th anniversary this year... It is incredible to think that this landmark event has such an incredible history, &7 looks back at some beautiful imagery from Royal Ascots past...
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Royal Ascot 1946
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Royal Ascot 1955 |
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Excerpt from Fashion at Royal Ascot: Three Centuries of Thoroughbred Style (Thames & Hudson)British Newspaper The Sphere, post 1939
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Royal Ascot 1933 |
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Royal Ascot 1926 |
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Royal Ascot 1914 |
If you love like us looking at the beautiful Ascot archive you will love James Sherwoods new book, released to coincide with Ascots anniversary it documents Ascot's iconic style throughout the ages from when Queen Anne opened the races in 1711, until the present day:
Fashion at Royal Ascot: Three Centuries of Thoroughbred Style (Thames & Hudson), £35, is available in stores now.
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Such beautiful images can be found in Sherwoods book:
Couple walking towards the royal enclosure in 1935. |
Incredibly beautiful!
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