LONDON WEDDINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 18

LONDON WEDDINGS

BARRIES GODDAUGHTER-

"Two weddings of more than usual interest have taken , place in London recently, tho one being Lady Perdita Asquith's, and the other Mr. Stephen de Laszlo's. Lady Perdita is ,a granddaughter of the late Lord Oxford. Her father, who did not live to succeed to the title, was killed in the war, and her brother is tho present carl," writes an Englishwoman. "She is what might be called a stop-granddaughter of Lady Oxford,' famous as the 'Margot' of her own and other people's Victorian and Edwardian reminiscences. Even now Lady Oxford is easily tho most arresting fignro in any assemblago of women by reason of her intense vitality. I have seen her in company with some of tho best-known and best-looking of the younger set, and I have thought that tho knife-like intelligence, ' the sheer lifo that rings in her every movement, is more attractive than youth or beauty, and makes them look .insipid. At the wedding she was dressed in blackI.' So was Mrs. Reginald M'Kenna.- Lady Diana Cooper, always picturesque, wore a belted coat of fawn tweed and ,a red beret. It was a quiet wedding, but it gained interest, not only from the bride's connection with the statesman, but from tho facts that she was given away by the young earl, who is about 15, and that she is a goddaughter of Sir James Barrie, who chose for her the dress in which she was married. He chose well.' It was a charming and original affair of very pale pini satin, with a veil and draperies of tinted, lace to tone with the satin. ', Among Lady Perdita's wedding presents furniture' played a notable part. A dressing table of a pale primrose coloured wood, lightly decorated with coral pink, was a very modern example of it, and as attractive as modern. "Tho other interesting wedding'drew a crowd of artistic and society people, for the bridegroom's father, Mr. Philip de Laszlo, is^a' very famous painter of famous people.r 'Born'in; Hungary, ho has lived in England for many years, ■find •is married to' a charming Irishwoman', a 'member of the far-spreading Guinness clan. Mr. do Laszlo has painted portraits of royalties and,cardinals, of society beauties in Europe and America, of princes and politician's— among them tho Queen'of Spain, Queen Marie „of Eumania, the late Emperor of Austria, the Pope, "Cardinal Merry de Val, tho Duchess 'of York, and Lady Louis Mountbatten His latest portrait was that of Miss Diana yon Verson, his son's bride, which ho gave,to her as a wedding present."