A DUKE'S BRIDE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20496, 22 February 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

A DUKE'S BRIDE.

MISS LOELIA PONSONBY-

Miss Loelia Ponsonby, whoso engagement has been recently announced in London to tho Duko of Westminster, is tho daughter of Sir Frederick and Lady Ponsonby. Sho is tho author of somo interesting articles on " Tho Young Men of To-day, and very vivaciously sho has written them. Sho writes, as sho talks, with force, originality, and candour. Miss Ponsonby has her father's independence of mind. It was Sir Frederick with whom tho ex-Kaiser became almost ferociously angry recently, over the publication of tho frank letters of tho Empress Frederick, Wilhelm's mother. Miss Ponsonby is not excessively given to sport. Sho prefers travel—in this she is like the Duke—and meeting interesting people; and ono proof of her popularity is that sho is very friendly with groups who do not always intermingle. She is moro fond of the moated Elizabethan manor—Tangley—that is her father and mother's country place, than she is of living in London, and sho spends most of her time there.

Sir Frederick and Lady Ponsonby live, when they aro in London, at St. James' Palaco. Miss Ponsonby, tiring of her room as it was, has had it entirely redecorated, and furnished in the most modern and amusing manner. It must bo tho only room in tho palace to havo been so transformed.