BEST MAN CHOSEN FOR ROYAL WEDDING

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1947, Page 10

BEST MAN CHOSEN FOR ROYAL WEDDING

LONDON. Sept. 26. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten’s best man at the Royal wedding on November 22 will be the Marquess of Milford Haven. The Marquess of Milford Haven is a nephew of Admiral Earl Mountbatten, who is heir to the title. He was born in 1919, and succeeded his father, the second Marquess, in 1938. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and entered the Royal Navy in 1933. He served as a midshipman aboard H.M.S. London in 1937. From 1939 to 1941 he was a sub-lieutenant aboard H.M.S. Kandahar, and in 1942 served as a lieutenant in H.M.S. Bramham. In 1943, he took a signal course aboard H.M.S. Victory.

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1942, and was also made an officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Hints On Horne Building Sent To Princess

.A small book, addressed to “Her Royal Highness, ‘ Princess Elizabeth, Buckingham Palace, England,” arrived by air recently as a gift from “Brides, Incorporated,” of America. The pamphlet contains chapters on “Hints on Building a Home,” “Etiquette” and “Your Budget.” Other headings are: “Schedule for Housework” and “The Business of Being Missus.”

Cape Town is responding quickly to the mayor’s appeal for contributions to a “shilling and upward” fund for a wedding present for Princess Elizabeth. The Cape Town correspondent of The Times says that the gift will probably be a furniture suite in stinkwood, which, despite its malodorous name, is South Africa’s most indigenous timber.