LADY SEAFIELD.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 2

LADY SEAFIELD.

FESTIVITIES FOR TENANTS. i (FEOK oun OWH COBSXSrOKDXHT.) v' I ' LONDON, February 18. It is stated that on the return of the Countess of Seafield and her husband, Mr Derek Studley-Herbert, from the Continent, where they are spending their honeymoon, they will give a wedding reception to the whole of Lady Seafield's tenantry on her estates in Morayshire, and Banffshire. The celebrations will probably continue for two weeks, with bonfires and feasts, and speeches by the bridal pair. Xbe Bridal down. In the "Daily Telegraph" one reads: — A beautful wedding gown ordered lately for a society bride was destined to be superseded at the last moment by a travelling gown. Its owner, young La<Jy Seafield, unexpectedly decided to have a quiet, secret ceremony instead of a fashionable one, and the rich ivory satin folds would have been too conspicuous, as publicity was not desired. But the wedding gown is not to be handed down unworn. When the bride and. her husband, Mr Studley-Herbert, return from the Contiiumt, where they are spening their honeymoon, they intend to give a wedding reception • to the tenantry up in Morayshire. Lady Seafield will then wear bridal finery for the satisfaction of the cottagers and- farmers in th? Grant country, who are devoted to her.

This beautiful Scottish bride is often reputed to bear a strong resemblance to Queen "Victoria as a girl, except for her hair, which is red-gold. So it is not surprising that she chose a distinctly Victorian style for her wedding gown, and that the satin of which it is made is of the rich-looking variety with a gorgeous sheen. At the tenants' celebration she will stand with her husband to receive congratulations—as she would have done had she carried out her original intention of being married in Scotland—and will afterwards cut her wedding cake to the strains of bagpipe music.