THE ROYAL WEDDING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18765, 19 January 1923, Page 5

THE ROYAL WEDDING

.’resa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 17. It is expected that the Duke of York’s wedding will take place at Westminster Abbey after piaster. The Earl of Strathmore, interviewed', said: “ The Duke and Lady Elizabeth first met at a children's partv when she was a girl of five and he a schoolboy, and they have been friendly ever since. The engagement did not altogether take us by surprise. The Prince spent the week-end at my house at Welwyn, Herefordshire. The couple went for a walk on Sunday afternoon, and at the end of the walk we heard about the engagement. The Prince did not bring the ring in his pocket, but Lady Elizabeth understands that it will be sapphires.”' The Earl added: “I am also told that the Duke was not in the least nervous when proposing, only in his usßal pood spirits.” The Duke spent Tuesday morning with his fiancee perusing a huge pile of congratulations. The couple then motored to Buckingham Palace and lunched together. Like the Duke, Lady Elizabeth is interested in work among the poor, and she participates actively in the Girl Guide movement. “ Rathep a rag, isn’t it, coming iust after mv renorted engagement to the Prince of Wales?” she said, when interviewed. “ Tile Duke proposed just after tea on Sundav in the morning room. Wo had been friends for as long a.s I can remember, but this is all so recent and I am so happy that I don’t ouite know what to say.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.