LORD AND LADY JELLICOE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18548, 25 November 1925, Page 2

LORD AND LADY JELLICOE.

ILLNESS OF LADY GWENDOLINE. (raOM OTTE OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, October 23. The New Zealand friends of Lady Gwendoline Jellicoe will be glad to know that she is making satisfactory progress after her operation for appendicitis. The need for this developed with great suddenness. On Friday, of last week tho Earl and Countess Jellicoe and Lady Gwendoline were dining at the Garden Club at Wembley, and next day a passage fo New Zealand, via Australia, was booked for Lady Gwendoline by the Ormonde, which she was to join at Marseilles, leaving London on Tuesday. However, in the meantime, the illness came on very suddenly, and the operation took nlace at St. Lawrence Hati, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on Monday night. Much disappointment will naturally be felt by the friends in New Zealand "horn Lad£ Gwendoline was intending to visit tlrab her plans have had so unexpectedly to be abandoned meanwhile. Countess JeTlicoe has cancelled her engagements for the next fortnight, but Earl Jellicoe, although unable to be present at the annual Banquet of the Navy League, is now fulfilling hiß engagements, of which he, naturally, has a great many. About the end of and Lady Jellicoe expect to go into residence at their new London home at 80, Portland Place, which they have taken on a long lease. Meanwhile, they will be chiefly at ; Ventnor. It was generally known in New Zealand that Earl and Lady Jellicoe were anxious to return to England, partly on account of the education of the younger members of their family. Lady Myrtle Jellicoe is now at school in Paris, while Lady Norah and Lady Prudence are at North Foreland 'Lodge, Broadstairs, a very bracing and attractive spot on the coast of Kent. Their little" son, Lord Brocas, will not be old enough to go to school until next year. No decision has yet been come to as to where he will be sent.