THE MYSTERY BRIDE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE MYSTERY BRIDE.

! AN AMAZING INCIDENT. .To the amazement of the■■- gueste as- '-'". sembled for'the wedding of Canon "Hi Douglas-Hamilton and the Hon. Rosa- ; mond Batemto Hanbury, at the Church '■■■■■A of the Annunciation; in Bryanston Street, . London, a mystery "bride" dressed in ; '■■ silver'brocade, arrived at the church. She ' o had : a silver lace cloak bordered with •/ , mauve chiffon, and a long tolls veil::. ' hanging from a wreath of silver leaves. r She appeared to be very much distressed ;r on ' hearing : that the wedding,-. ceremony had begun. "j : -,;-- - ■; 'The mystery "bride" refused to enter ; the church, saying that she was too ',, \ late, and Snaily drove away in a taxi, .: What makes her'appearance additionally - ,; remarkable is the fact that she has been : '~ ;■ - seen at another London church, and on that occasion also sne ; arrived „ just after the service had started. ,A taxi-cab driver stated that he was engaged .by. a woman in Sloane Street. She was then wearing ordinary morn- -": ing dress, but told him; to drive to Wetherby }'■* Mansions, and wait while she . - changed -heiri,"clothes. -He did so, and t in a few minutes she appeared in her bridal . array, and told him to take her to the church in Bryanston Street. The ■; mysteryj^bride' 1 ' proved to h?. . Miss Winder, a church worker ; at ; St. Philip's Church, Kensington, # who - - was on a visit to Lady .;■ Mary Leslie-at Wetherby Mansions, Earl's Courts Sh» '■" •' is a deeply religious and wall-connecw • woman, whose devotion to the church is -one of her < chief interests in 'Mj;A'vregular- attendant at Sunday i»bo, ; >'f: week-day services at St. Philip's Churcb( < she also assisted the work of the -Girls ' Friendly I Society;; at "the '■ church., ■;. Sty a,: reporter -Miss Gobbet-Winder was en- . ;. able to explain her strange action. " A cannot tell you why I drove up to the ; ;; church. Air I can nay is' that it *?**-. a mistake/ JCt was certainly not m* .• tended as a joke. I should be the itt* , ~/ person to play a joke of that kino. - - ■ .. had the intention of going to see tnft wedding.' hut what prompted use.to go as Idid I cannot tell you. I arai » a * related in any way to either' bnde <" v /' bridegroom." ~,< , "'" Lady Leslie could throw Httl» M"; ,' on her -guest's conduct. "Miss Wrad« has been staying with mo ■ for.about six ' weeks," she explained. " I know, beta . from her actions and from what ana , x has ' told me, that .. she is : very ' anxious to : get married/ and I believe «« "" taken a step each as this at. aaotft- .. church, in the hope that she wui - *"? ; ">§l married there. I know of no v*7 «! .. romance which can'.account «'* i this.' 8 - , : &BM