SOCIAL OCCASION
CHURCHILL—SOAMES WEDDING KEEN INTEREST IN LONDON (Rec. 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, February 11. A special force of 35 constables and five mounted constables could not cope with a cheering crowd of about 1000 men and women who swept into the road outside St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster, and surrounded the car carrying Mr. Churchill and his daughter Mary to her wedding with Captain Christopher Soames. Women and children lay full length on the pavement and poked their heads and shoulders beneath the awnings see the bride.
The police with difficulty cleared a way to the church where 800 guests were waiting to see one of London’s biggest weddings since the war. The Exchange Telegraph says that the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, and Mrs. Attlee were greeted with some boos when they entered the church. The notables present included Viscount and Lady Mountbatten, Mr. Anthony Eden, Lord Portal and the former American Ambassador, Mr. J. G. Winant.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1947, Page 7
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