DUKE'S WEDDING TO-DAY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21334, 29 November 1934, Page 9

DUKE'S WEDDING TO-DAY

—❖ — INTEREST INCREASES I DIAMOND NECKLACE FOR PRINCESS • THE ROYAL FAMILY'S GIFT ■jtJinTltD PRKSS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTMC TELIGBAPn—COPYRIGHT.) •(Received November 28, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 28. The "Daily Telegraph" learns that the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Puchess of York, the Duke of Gloucester, and the Earl and Countess of Harewood have combined to give Princess Marina a magnificent diamond necklace. A woman guest at the Buckingham Palace party says that the wedding rehearsal was a magnificent scene. Nothing like it had been seen in London since before the «war. Everybody would remember it (for long. The guest also remarked on how yadiantly happy Princess Marina looked. It was obvious how happy she and the Duke of Kent were. The Queen, too, was happy, and made a Striking figure. Yesterday was devoted to rehearsals and preparations for the. 'yedding. The King and Queen went to Westminster Abbey in the morning to watch a rehearsal of the cereImony, in which the eight bridesmaids took part. Later the Greek Orthodox Church ceremony was rehearsed in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace, when the Duke and Princess Marina were present.

Throughout the day hundreds of workmen were engaged in finishing ; public stands, planting pylons along the route and decorating all these with bunting, in which the British colours blend with the blue and white of Princess Marina's country. Last night London was filled .with voices as the elaborate broadcasting Apparatus was being tested. BROADCAST OF THE CEREMONY TIMES FINALLY FIXED (ERI-II3H OFFICIAL WIRELKSS.) (Received November 23, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, November 27. The British Broadcasting Corporation's Empire broadcast of the Royal wedding ceremony will be made between 10.45 a.m. and 11.45 a.m.. Greenwich mean time, on November 29 from stations GSE and GSG. Recordings will be broadcast during the normal transmissions at 3 p.m., 5.15 p.m. and 11 p.m., and on November 30 at 8.15 a.m. WEDDING GIFTS ' NONE FROM AUSTRALIA OR NEW ZEALAND LONDON, November. 27. No Australian or New Zealand presents were noticed in the huge collection of Royal wedding gifts, which are displayed in three rooms at St. James' Palace. Mr R. B. Bennett, and the Canadian Cabinet, however, has presented the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina with a pair of finely wrought loving cups. Perhaps the most interesting feature is the number of authors who have presented their own bonks, mostly richly bound, but in some cases in ordinary cloth-bound editions. The quantity of rubier among the jewels shows Princess Marina's preference for these stones. For instance, the Duke has given her a gorgeous necklet of rubies and diamonds. Their Majesties have given the couple six silver cai-delabra. Among the collection of other silver dishes and ornaments the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York, the Earl and Countess of Harewood, and the Duke of Gloucester .have combined to give a selection of Adam mahogany side pieces. Cabinet members and members of foreign Royal families, including Princess Marina's family, and many Indian prince-, and others, have given lavish presents, but it is impressive to note the large number of smaller presentj, which might appear in the list of any middle-class couple's gifts. iDUKE AT SERVANTS' BALL QUEEN'S GOWN FOR WEDDING LONDON, November 27. The Duke of Kent and Princess Marina stayed an hour at a servants' Party, at which there were 2000 people, mixing freely with the guests find shaking hands with old servants, the Duke introducing several whom he had known since babyhood to Princess Marina. One said later: "The Princess won all hearts. She was all smiles and seemed perfectly delighted with us." Their Majesties, the Duke of Kent, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York will ride to the Abbey in glass coaches, while eturning to Buckingham Palace the bridal pair will drive ln a glass coach drawn by greys. The Queen's gown for th : wedding will be pastel blue and Australian gold brocaded velvet, woven in a classical floral style, and designed in the Princess style, the gracefully sculptured skirt revealing an underdress of supple cloth of gold. She will also wear a capelet of similar Brocaded velvet, linei" with pale gold, and a collar of Russian sables. Her turban toque will be of gold velvet, with a mount of pastel blue South African ostrich feathers. The Queen will wear her blue Knight of the Garter ribbon. Her jewels will oe diamonds.