A DUKE'S BRIDE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1937, Page 14

A DUKE'S BRIDE

TO WED AS NON-CATHOLIC

The Hon. Lavinia Strutt will be * married to the Duke of Norfolk at J Brompton Oratory on January 27 as ■ a non-Catholic (states the London "Daily Mail" of December 15). 1 The Duke of Norfolk, head of the oldest and most noble Roman Catholic family in the realm, has received, through the Bishop of Southwark (Bishop Amigo), the Pope's dispensa- 1 tion for his marriage to a non-Catholic. "The duke's plea for a dispensation was placed before Bishop Amigo by Father John H. Cudden, of the parish ; church at Arundel." "The bishop is empowered to grant the dispensation in the Pope's name. Miss Strutt, as the non-Catholic party, has to promise that any children of the marriage shall be brought up as Roman Catholics." The marriage ceremony will be shorter than would have been the case had the bride been of the same faith as the duke. Instead of Nuptial Mass lasting an hour and a half, the service will probably last twenty minutes. Miss Strutt, who is. aged 20, and the daughter of the Countess of Rosebery by her first marriage to Lord Belper, was in London in early December making arrangements for her trousseau. The tenants and servants of the Duke of Norfolk's estate at Arundel, as well as townspeople—the duke, who is aged 28, was Mayor of Arundel for the past municipal year—rejoiced when the engagement was announced three weeks ago.