THE DUCHESS' BROTHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20132, 18 December 1928, Page 7

THE DUCHESS' BROTHER.

TO MARRY SOON.

Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, daughter of Lieutenant-Col on el H. 11. Spemder-Clay, M.P. for tho Tonbridge division o! Kent, who is to marry tho Hon. David BowesLyon,' a brother of the Duchess of York, and tho youngest of the four sons of tho Earl and Countess of Slxathmoie, is 21, is a prettv brunette, a interested in outdoor life?", One'lllT recreations at Spey Bay, wbiA she visits every year, is golf. . Her mother. i£ Viscount Astor's sister. Th® wedding .will take placo in London, probably early in tho New; Year. :* ; Mr. Bowes-Lyon 'it- 26, two years younger than tne Duchess of York, *of wliohi ho was the inseparable companion during their childhood. Tho friendship continued through the brother's career at Eton, where the Duchess often visited Mm, and he has been one of her most constant visitors since her marriage. He is otii> of Princess Elizabeth's most devoted ancles. Mr. Bowes-Lyon is tall and his eyes are of the same deep bill's as his sister's. As a child he was reputed to have the gift . of second sight. During the war he refused to believe thaV his brother Michael, reported by the War Office as killed, was actually dead. I V 'Ho said that he hj 3 seen liim twice, and ithati "his head wasi tied tip in a cloth." Two months afterv/iirds Captain Michael Bowes-Lyon was reported as wounded and a prisoner of war in Germany, and he was repatriated soon after the end of hostilities.