QUEEN ATTENDS WEDDING
EQUERRY MARRIED AT ABBEY
ROYAL FAMILY AMONG 1500 GUESTS
(NJZ. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 1. Thousands of uninvited London housewives swarmed to Westminster Abbey today to cheer the Queen as she attended, with 1500 other guests, the wedding of the year. The Duke of Edinburgh, the Queeh Mother, Princess Margaret, the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Kent, Princess Alexandra, and the .Duke of Kent were among the guests. j The handsome bridal couple, a tall blonde English beauty, 18-year-old Frances .Roche, daughter of Lord and Lady Fermoy and 30-year-old Lord Althorp, son of Earl Spencer* and an equerry *to the Queen, later entertained 900 guests at a reception at St. James’s P,alace. The Queen wore a sable stole over a mushroom taffeta fitted coat and striped stiff taffeta hat. The blue-eyed bride, with her mother’s diamond tiara on her fair hair, wore a gown of camellia white faille, encrusted with silver sequin crystals and hand-cut dianrantes. There were four senior bridesmaids and three junior bridesmaids, all in white spotted muslin.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27366, 3 June 1954, Page 2
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