MARRIED IN SECRET

Evening Star, Issue 17644, 25 April 1921, Page 7

MARRIED IN SECRET

ROMANTIC WEDDING OF EARL’S SON. With only a chance passer-by and a chauffeur as witnesses, the Eon, Arnold JooSt William Keppel, second son of the Earl, of Albemarle, was secretly married at the Strand Registry Office. The bride of this son of one of England’s most aristocratic families—his undo is Master of the Royal Household —was Miss Doris Lilian Carter, a pretty brunette, who was described on the register as the daughter of a deceased Hmo and cement merchant. She is twenty-two, while her husband is thirty-eis. Great precautions were taken to keep news of the romance from leaking out. There was not a single friend present. The marriage took place by license, notice having been given to the registrar on the previous Friday, Mr Keppel is a much-travelled man. As a special correspondent to ‘The Times’ he was with the Persian Expedition of 1911, nnd from 1912 to 1913 was attache at Bucharest and at Teheran. During the war ha was a lieutenant in the R.A.F., and saw service in France. The Albemarles are of Dutch descent, and Mr Kcppel's curious , Christian name, .Joost, came to, him from a Dutch ancestor of renown. King Edward was godfather to his younger brother, and tho wedding of another brother, Captain Rupert Keppel, of the Coldstream Guards, and Lady Violet Do Trailer:!, in January 1919, was a great society event. For some days after the wedding Mr and Mrs Keppel occupied a suite at Felix Hotel, Jcrmyn street, but they have since gone, and their present address is a secret.