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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18281, 23 December 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)

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LORD'S DAUGHTER WEDS.

BRIDEGROOM A SHOP HAND.

A young and beautiful bride who has 1 spent her life in the inner circle of the ! Court since tho day when a Queen becamo her godmother, and a. bridgegrootn who until a few months ago served behind the counter in a London shop, are tho central figures in a remarkable romance of the peerage which culminated in a, quiet wedding in tho little Scottish town of Portobello, near Edinburgh. The bride is the Hon. Alexandra Louvima Knollys, widow of Captain Allan Keith Mackenzie, and only daughter of Viscount. Knollys, formerly private secretary to King George and Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Alexandra. Tho bridegroom is Richard Henry Checklcy, tho son of a rnacer (usher) in the Court of Session, Edinburgh. He served in the war and attained commissioned rank, but since demobilisation and up till "inc months ago ho was an assistant salesman, swving behind tho counter at the shop of .John Cotton, Ltd., tobacco merchants, Albemarle Street, London. The marriage took place with the full knowledge and consent of Viscount Knollys, who would have attended (he ceremony if the state of his health had permitted him to travel.

The romance, it is said, began m a war time meeting while the bride was working as a hospital nurse.

She was married to her first husband in 1911. He was then the second surviving son of the late Sir Allan R. Mackenzie, Bt., of Glen Muick, Aberdeenshire, and was killed in the war.