THE DUKE’S WEDDING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 9

THE DUKE’S WEDDING.

CLERGYMAN'S DECISION. WILL PERFORM CEREMONY. "KNEW THEY DESIRED IT." (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Received June 3, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, June 2. Rev. Mr Jardine has arrived at Tours. He states that he has volunteered to conduct the religious ceremony at the wedding of the Duke ot Windsor and Miss Warfield, knowing that they desired one. . - "i did not consult any ecc* let-Apical authority,'' he said; "only my own consicence. The otter was accepted uy tne .L>uke." The Bishop of Durham (Dr Hansley Henson) says he is unaware that mr Jardine is officiating at the wedding. "I cannot control Mr Jardine s action un the Continent. Presumably lie secured tne permission of a responsible Anglican Bishop, but if the marriage were occurring m my ciocese J. sliouid have considered it my duty to innibit a clergyman from officiating." London register oihceis will be unusually busy to-morrow owing to many coupled wisning to marry on the same day and at tlie same hour as tne Duke. TOURS GAILY BEDECKED. POLICE STRONGLY REINFORCED. TOURS, June 2. Mr Herman Rogers has announced that a religious ceremony will iollow the civil one and will be pcrlormed at noon by Rev. Anderson Jardine, vicar of St. Paul's Church, Darlington, Yorkshire. Thousands are flocking into gaily bedecked Monts and the neighbouring countryside hoping to see the Duke ol Windsor and his bride before their departure, but the police arc being stronglv reinforced. Streets within a mile of the chateau will be closed an hour before the ceremony and possibly earlier. Five newspaper correspondents will he permitted, also three photographers and one newsreel operator who, however, wdl not be allowed to film the actual ceremony. ' A silent film will he taken afterwards in the garden. Wedding gifts continue to pour into the Chateau de Candc, a motor-van making five or six journeys a day from Tours. ~ . ~ Gifts from the Royal 1 amil>; arrived to-day. Crowds of sightseers are flocking the district. THOUSANDS OF VISITORS. GREAT DAY IN HISTORY OF MONTS. Received June 3, 11.55 a.m. TOURS, June 2. After a day of intense activity inside and outside the chateau, the arrangements have been practically completed for the wedding. For Monts, which is packed with sightseers, it will be one of the most important days m the village's history. The whole place is observing a holiday to celebrate the occasion. Three big flags are flying at the entrance to the village—the Union Jack the Stars and Stripes and the French Tricolour. The local musical society offered to serenade the bride and bridegroom, but the Duke replied regretting that he was unable to accept.' Charabanc excursions are running to the chateau from many parts of France bringing hundreds more to join the thousands of' visitors already in the district. AUTOGRAPH OBTAINED. MRS WARFIELD'S SIGNATURE. Per Press Association. AYJi,DLll\UlUr>, June 2. "I regard tuis as my greatest success," said Miss J. M. Coney, ot Wellington, when she showed ner reported latest addition to her collection ol autographs. "It is the siguatuie ol tne uuKe of "Windsor's bnue." "Wains Simpson" is written with a flowing, cultured hand on a pencil portrait or lierscit drawn by Miss Coney, who sends a pencil portrait usually drawn iroih a pnotograph. Fearing that the request might be side-tracked, Miss Coney adopted the plan of addressing the letter to Mrs Herman Rogers, Miss Warheld's (Mrs Simpson's) Hostess. To Mrs Rogers was made the tactful request that she should pass the drawing on to her guest. The plan worked and back from Cannes came the autographed portrait together with the following, dated April 14 and written on behalf of Miss Warfield by Mr Rogers:— "Mrs Simpson has asked me to write to you and say that in your case she is happy to relax her usual rule not to give autographs." Recently Miss Colley secured MiNeville Chamberlain's autograph by sending him a portrait of himself and now she is 'planning a campaign to "bag" the Duke of Windsor. "He will be more difficult," she said, "but 1 have thought of a plan. The problem is to get past his secretaries."