ROYAL WEDDING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22260, 7 November 1935, Page 13

ROYAL WEDDING

EVE OF CEREMONY SERVICE IN THE CHAPEL PROCEDURE AFTERWARDS A PRELIMINARY RECEPTION By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received November R, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 5 The Bishop of London, Dr. Winnington Ingram, will open the wedding service of the Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Scott in the Chapel at Buckingham Palace tomorrow. While Lady Alice and her eight bridesmaids walk up the aisle the hymn, " Praise My Soul," will be sung. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, will perform the marriage ceremony. Lady Alice will promise to husband.

The Primus of Scotland will then pray for God's blessing, and the Archbishop of Canterbury will deliver a short address and will end the service by blessing the couple. An adjournment will then be made to the adjacent household drawing room to sign the register to the strains of Mendelssohn's Wedding March. There will be 120 guests at the wedding breakfast. The King will propose the only toast, that of the health of the bridß and bridegroom. Nearly 3000 guests attended a reception in St. James' Palace when the wedding presents were on view. The Duke, with his fiancee, drove with the Queen from Buckingham Palace to St. .Tames'. On arrival the Queen, with the Duke and Lady Alice, walked through the State apartments and afterwards mingled with the guests. WARSHIPS' OBSERVANCE ROYAL SALUTE FIRED The two sloops attached to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, the Leith and the Wellington, and the training ship Philomel, were dressed yesterday for the occasion of the wedding* of the Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Scott. A Royal salute of *2l guns was fired at noon from the Philomel's battery. The flags on the Leith were hauled down prior to her sailing for Napier early in the afternoon.