FURTHER SIDELIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 27

FURTHER SIDELIGHTS

ROYAL WEDDING

(From "Ths Post's" Representative.) LONDON, November 9. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester drove to St. Pancras in an open j landau with postilions and outriders. As the carriage door was opened by ! the scarlet-coated Royal servants, a shower of 'rose petals, silver slippers, horseshoes, wedding bells, and true lovers' knots fell to the carpeted platform. The Duke and Duchess laughed as they saw the cascade. The four older -bridesmaids were there carrying their bouquets and wrapped in fur cloaks. Also present were the new Duchess's three sisters, Lady Margaret Hawkins (in ruby red velvet), Lady Sybil Phipps (in amethyst velvet), and Lady Burghley (in palest saxe blue velvet).

The London flower shops paid a pretty compliment to the Scottish bride. The favours for wedding day were of white heather, tied with tartan ribbon.

The bride cake, the gift of J. Lyons and Co., Ltd.. was seven feet high and weighed 1561b.

The first arrival outside Buckingham Palace was Mrs. Thomas, of Dalston. She was there at 2 a.m., and took up her post on the Victoria Memorial. The first arrival outside Lady Alice's house—No. 2 Grosvenor Place—was a woman who arrived at 8 a.m., sat on