ROYAL BRIDE TO CARRY BOUQUET OF WHITE ORCHIDS
(Rec. 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13. Princess Elizabeth, at her wedding, will carry a bouquet of white orchids supplied by the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. The bridesmaids’ bouquets .will be of white orchids, lilies of the valley, gardenias, white bouvardia, white roses and white nerine. A diamond tiara will hold Princess Elizabeth’s veil in place. It is announced from Buckingham Palace that Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Mountbatten will leave for their honeymoon at Broadlands, near Romsey, by train from Waterloo station on the afternoon of November 20.
Chinese wedding gifts, which were brought to London by Lord Ammon, head of the Parliamentary goodwill mission to China, include a traditional Chinese silk wedding dress in a carved teak box, and also 200 pieces of china bearing a character denoting double happiness and one case of china tea. The Burmese gift is 98 rubies set in gold. Mexico’s is a gold and turquoise pendant. The Austrian gift will be a Godelin tapestry, 126 inches by 78 inches, especially woven for the Austrian pavilion in the World Exhibition o~f 1937.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1947, Page 5
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