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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2496, 8 March 1930, Page 6

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• YOUNG SCOTS COUNTESS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London, Match 6. “if I had been born a boy, I would be chief of the Clan Grant, but I’ve worries enough without that," said the 23 year old Countess of Seafield, in an interview. She secretly married Derek Studley Herbert on January 10. She is grey-eyed, fair-complexioned. and has hair of light copper shade, ller , parents were born in New Zealand. “Clans,” says the Countess, “art: almost tilings of the past, except on great estates, where they assemble for funerals, births and marriages, which are not always the brightest occasions of social treasures. My uncle. L'ord Strathspey, who was born at Oamaru, is the clan, chieftain." The Countess denied that her marriage was secret or flippant as alleged. “There’s nothing flippant about a girl being prevented by out - side malicious interference from' marrying iu the ordinary way,” she) declared. “From the moment of out) engagement, obstacle after obstacle was put in our way. \\ e were .eft with no choice but to be married quietly, without preliminary fuss.