Newly-weds leave

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33384, 16 November 1973, Page 1

Newly-weds leave

(N.Z.P.A.-Kcutcr —Copyright) ! LONDON, Nov. 15.! Princess Anne and Captain! Mark Phillips left Britain to-! day for a Caribbean honey-1 moon after spending their I wedding night in Thatched: House Lodge, Richmond! Park, borrowed from Princess' I Alexandra and Mr Angus! j Ogilvie. Princess Anne and her| ■husband were travelling with' other first-class passengers on a scheduled commercial air-! line flight to Barbados to join! ithe Royal Yacht Britannia.! The trip will take eight hours; <4O minutes. I They will cruise in the: Caribbean and through the! Panama Canal to the Pacific I | Ocean for 18 days before be-1 ' ginning an official tour of two ■ ‘South American countries and' !three West Indian islands in! itheir first public engagement! •as husband and wife. The Princess and her Army; [Officer husband escaped the! ! great and unending publicity of their engagement! land marriage in a shower of! • rose petals after a wedding! breakfast attended by 120 in the white and gold ballroom! !at Buckingham Palace. ! They left in a horse-drawn carriage but transferred to a! I maroon Rolls-Royce at the! back of the Royal Hospital. I Chelsea, where they were to J jhave met the Chelsea PenI sioners. Guarded by 30 detectives! and the household staff, the! ! coupled dined by candlelight and firelight and watched a replay of their wedding on (television. i