DUKE'S WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 110, 5 November 1935, Page 9

DUKE'S WEDDING

CEREMONY TOMORROW

ABSENCE OF PAGEANTRY

CAEEFUL BEHEAESAL

(British Official Wireless and United Press graph—Copyright. .(Received November 5, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, November 4,

Large crowds are expected in London on Wednesday for the wedding of the Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Scott, despite the fact that owing co the recent death of the bride's father the pageantry usually associated with a Royal wedding will be dispensed with. The ceremony will take place in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace, but the bride will drive in a glass coach from her London home accompanied by Heir brother, the Duke of Buccleuch, and later in the day the public will have an opportunity to see the bride and bridegroom, who if the weather permits will drive in an open State landau with an escort •of the Household Cavalry to St. Pancras Station, from which they will travel by special train to Kejtering. The honeymoon is to be spent at Boughton House, which is the Northamptonshire seat of the Duke of Buccleuch. The King and Queen yesterday inspected the wedding presents. The Prince of Wales is giving Lady Alice Scott a streamlined sports car. He gave particular instructions regarding its construction and the inclusion of extra features. The Duchess of Kent is expected to attend the wedding, the arrangements for which the Queen personally supervised, helping to solve problems inseparable from an occasion for which there is no precedent. Every detail has been rehearsed for days. Their Majesties will occupy gold and crimson chairs to the right of the altar. The bridesmaids, owing to the limitations of the chapel, will be compelled to halt several yards behind the bride in order not to interrupt, their Majesties' view. The chapel will be filled with flowers—three lorry loads of orchids, roses, carnations, and chrysanthemums from the King's gardens at Windsor. MAGNIFICENT PRESENTS. A representative of the Associated Press agency .viewed nearly a thousand presents, filling six rooms at St. James's Palace, which have been received by the Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice, testifying to the affection in which they are held not only by the aristocracy but by all classes. For instance, there is a handsome cabinet containing an address of loyalty and thousands of pages of manuscript bearing the signatures of members of boys' clubs throughout Britain of which the Duke is president. The place of honour is given to "a pair of sox knitted by a Glasgow resident, Grannie McEwen, aged 95, who is bed-ridden. A boy sent a paper-knife to Lady Alice requesting her to use it daily. The Queen has made especially generous gifts, including a turquoise and diamond tiara and corsage set, a magnificent Chippendale bookcase, a Coromandel dressing case with silver gilt fittings, a pedestal desk, and lovely ol<i silver. The Queen also joined the King in giving a corsage set in pearls and emeralds and another with a tiara of pearls and diamonds. The Duke of Gloucester's gifts to the bride include two exquisite diamond tiaras, a diamond and emerald brooch, earrings, a pair of delicate diamond and pearl bracelets, and a diamond corsage ornament. A charming gift is a pair of silver cigarette lighters with the childish writing "From Lilibet and Margaret." The Duchess of Buccleuch's presents are all homely, and include blankets, a gold needle set, and a portrait of herself. Combined gifts include a Chippendale desk from the heads of nineteen Royal households, a diamond brooch from the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, and the Countess and Earl of Harewood. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin gave an oak hall chest. City of London banks and other corporations sent. magnificent plate, foreign ■ favoured

jewels, and other, gifts from all parts of the Empire range from furniture, pictures, and books to shoes.