THE ASHLEY MARRIAGE
MOTHER TRD3S TO STOP IT
(Cnited Press Association.—Copyright.) (Reecived sth February, noon.)
LONDON, 4th .February. The Countess of Shaftesbury made a desperate last hour effort to stop the marriage of her son Lord Ashley to Miss Sylvia Hawkes. Leaving the family seat at Wimborne, St. Giles, Dorset, at daybreak, she motored to London, just in time to see Miss Hawkes leaving for the church. The Countess did not attend the wedding.
Miss Sylvia Hawkes, a pretty exmaanequin and musical comedy actress, aged 22, was married to Lord Ashley, heir to the Earl of Shaftesbury, in romantic circumstances. The likelihood or the marriage was rumoured for a week, but the Earl and Countess persistently denied the possibility, while the bride's friends were equally confident that the marriage would ■ take place. Events proved the actress right She was duly married at St. Paul's. Knightsbridge. The wedding dress was hastily prepared afc twenty-four hours' notice. A crowded congregation, attracted by newspaper publicity, included a number of st«ge stars and mannequin friends of the bride. The honeymoon will be spent at Biarritz. -Lord Ashley is 26 yars of age. The title was established in 1672, the first earl being Snrfe^C° oPer'aßtateS'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 9
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200THE ASHLEY MARRIAGE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1927, Page 9
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