EARLIER PREPARATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 4 June 1937, Page 7

EARLIER PREPARATIONS.

day of great activity. GIFT FROM KING AND QUEEN. LONDON, June 3. After a day of intense activity inside and outside the Chateau de Cande yester day, arrangements were completed for the Duke of Windsor’s wedding to Miss Wallis Warfield, states a message from Tours. The police were busily occupied during the early hours pf the morning ejecting gatecrashers from the prohibited zone. Many entered last night under cover of darkness. Others hired rooms in peasants’ houses in the chateau precincts, while the cleverest glided up the River Imlre which flows within a hundred yards of the chateau itself.

Miss Warfield rose at 8 a.m. and summoned her hairdresser and maids. While Miss Warfield was completing her toilet the Duke walked out on to the terrace of the chateau and consulted with a French official regarding the road protection arrangements. The official subsequently said that the Duke was radiant and the very picture of happiness. The sun grew steadily hotter as the morning advanced. Among the guests were men in morning coats and top hats and the women in simple garden party dresses with wide straw hats rested in the shade of the trees while the preparations were being completed. Packing continued inside the chateau yesterday. .Miss Warfield’s honeymoon trunks, containing at least 60 of the newest \ Paris dresses, were all ready. The Duke and (Miss Warfield made further studies of the French wedding ceremony so as to be thoroughly familiar with the text.

The Daily Mail says that Their Majesties sent a joint wedding present to the Duke and Miss Warfield.