LORD RANFURLY WEDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 18

LORD RANFURLY WEDS

ROMANCE BEGAN IN

AUSTRALIA

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LONDON, January 19

On January 17 the wedding wes solemnised, at St. George's, Hanover Square, of the Earl of Ranfurly, son of the late Viscount Northland and of Mrs. Lezard, of Digby House, Melton Mowbray, and Miss Hermione Llewellyn, eldest daughter of Mr. G. R. P. Llewellyn, of Prince Hall, Princetown, Devon, and Mrs. Llewellyn, of 53 Lowndes Square, S.W. The Dean of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and the Rev. H. C. Montgomery Campbell officiated. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a gown of white brocade. The long-sleeved bodice, buttoned at the back, had a low-cut, square neckline, and the train was made in one with the skirt. Her veil of old Brussels lace (belonging to the bridegroom's family), draped with tulle, was surmounted by a spray of Eucharist lilies, and she carried a showerbouquet of these flowers. The pages were Christopher Motley and Henry Elwes, and the little girl bridesmaids were Gillian Barclay, Christina StreatI field, Mary Jean Hargreaves, Georgina I Grossman, Anne Price, and June Lloyd. There. were also two grown-up attendants —Miss Cynthia and Miss Daphne Llewellyn (sisters of the bride). The pages wore suits of ivory-white satin, the short-sleeved blouses finished with frills. All the bridesmaids wore dresses of parchment-tinted satin, the bodices made with short, puff sleeves and square necklines, edged with gaugings of tulle, and their hair-wreaths and bouquets were of white hyacinths. Mr. Dennis Griffiths was best man. Mrs. Llewellyn (grandmother of the bride) afterwards held a reception at the London residence of Lady Harriet Cooper. Mrs. Llewellyn (mother of the bride), who is in Switzerland, was unable to be present on account of illness. Those present included Mr. and Lady Eileen Chappell, Lady Constance Milnes Gaskell, Lady Patricia MilnesGaskell, Sir Francis and Lady Price, Major-General H. D. O. Ward. Lady Constance Milnes-Gaskell and Lady Eileen Chappell, who will be remembered in New Zealand, are aunts of the bridegroom. Major-General H. D. O. Ward was A.D.C. in New Zealand to Earl Ranfurly, grandfather of this week's bridegroom. The romance of Lord Ranfury and his bride, Miss Hermione Llewellyn, •it is said, began in Australia. He was then A.D.C. to the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, while she was secretary to Lady Wakehurst, wife of the Governor of New South Wales.