ROYAL WEDDING.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9690, 11 May 1923, Page 5

ROYAL WEDDING.

GORGEOUS PAGEANTRY. SILVER, GOLD AND SUNLIGHT. LONDON, April 27. The Roval wedding in Westminster Abbey was on the most gorgeous SC ale. The scarlet and gold, blue and silver. and the gay plumage of the males, completely outshone even the striking gowns. Delicate greys and sober greens that alone would have taken an average woman’s breath away by the niceness of their hues, and the aitistry of their millinery, were scared into insignificance by the shouting colors of the uniforms. . The blues faded besides tlie vivid ribands of the Garter. Here and there a purple gown made a semieffectual attempt to stand up beside the soldiers’ and sailors’ garbs, but the onlv really successful rivals were two spots, one on the dais, where Princess Mary in blue and silver lifted to a high note of color by the Garter riband, threw back into perspective all the bright colors around Jl °The other • was in the aisle, where tlm orange hat of a slim society beauty defied all the gorgeous raiment "around it. The Duke and his bride walked down T.he aisle among the company ot kings, queens, princes, and other people who did not count much at the moment. The bridegroom leaned down with a happy sidle to speak to his lovely little bride. Then all that brilliant mass of color, beauty, and chivalry of England poured out, to gleam and sparkle beneath the sun. Outside tlie Abbey the dense crowd pressed ceaselessly against the living chain of blue which confined it till even London’t patient policemen had to speak a little sharply here and there.

In Buckingham Palace the household servants and many of their friends lined the corridors, and were permitted to inspect the great reception rooms. The breakfast was laid in the banqueting hall adjoining the salon. On the tables were piles of the choicest fruits, giant strawberries and others out of season. The wedding cake was on a table in the centre ”of the Blue Room, and several smaller cakes adorned the breakfast tables.

The King was all smiles, and the Queen was the stateliest figure of all. ] When the tiny bride returned and | ascended tlie great staircase, unaccompanied, wistful, and rather shy. the Queen took her in her arms. am. wnrmlv kissed her. After the Prince of AVales entered he kissed his sister Princess Alary, and adjourned upstairs for a few minutes with the bridegroom. The Prince informally drank the couplers health. The Princv Yales seemed strangely quiet throughout the proceedings, and it was almost suggested" that he was indisposed. He is usua llv bright’and alert, and ho was probably feeling the separation from (us brother, because they were the greatest of pals. His only boyish moment was when accompanying his brother’s car leaving tlie palace—he was apparently poking fun at the Duke. All laughed. There was a last happy conversation before the hridal party posed tor a photograph in a room specially lio-hted with artificial daylight, ihe Queen, in the best of humors, said that when Princess Mary was married she thought she had lost her only daughter. Now sh& found that she bad ‘rot two. . The bridegroom greeted the Prince of AVales with: “It’s your turn next, old man.” The Prince laughingly replied : ‘‘Not for me!”