ROMANCE OF THE SEA.
LORD STRADBROKE’S DAUGHTER
WEDDED WIRELESS OPERATOR
LONDON, May 13. The marriage of Lady Pleasauce Rous, the eldest daugther of the Governor of Victoria, the Earl of Stradbroke, reads lake a She met her husband, Air Owen McKenna, on a P. and 0. liner, of which ho was the wireless operator, on a voyage to Rangoon. Before the voyage had ended Mr McKenna had proposed, and was accepted ; but the bride did not reveal her identity till Rangoon was reached. Lord Stradbroko was informed, and gave his consent. The couple returned to Ssotland, where they waited only till the necessary residential qualification of 111 days had been fulfilled, when they were quietly married. None of the bride’s family was present. The couple left to spend the honeymoon in Ireland.
Lady Pleasauce was a Protestant, but before the ceremony, was admitted to the Roman Catholic Church. PARENTS NOT OPPOSED.
The Countess of Stradbroko contradicted, in an interview with a representative of the London Daily Mail, the suggestion that the wedding took place in face of the opposition of herself and her husband. She said that they would have attended the wedding if they could have arrived iu time. They telegraphed their congratulations from Marseilles.
Asked if the engagement had her approval, the Countess replied that the young people had the consent of herself and her husband. They had not seen the bridegroom, but he had written to them.
They had known of the engagement for some time, and thought that the reason why the wedding took place rather hurriedly was that the bridegroom had to return to his ship. The Countess gave her daughter a pearl necklace and a diamond clasp. Mr McKenna’s age is the same as his bride’s (24), says the Glasgow correspondent of The Times. He is the son of a colliery waggoner, who describes the bride as “a nice-looking, artistic, romantic girl, and a very good dressmaker.”
His remark is a reminder that the bride made her own wedding dress, which was of pink crepe de chine.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19230602.2.85
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 722, 2 June 1923, Page 9
Word Count
343ROMANCE OF THE SEA. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 722, 2 June 1923, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in