ROYAL WEDDING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19010, 5 November 1923, Page 7

ROYAL WEDDING

DINNER AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE. i’rcaa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 3. (Received Nov. 4, at 5.5 p.m.) There will be a brilliant assembly _in the Chapel Royal to-day at the wedding of the Crown Prince of Sweden and Louise Mountbatten- Seven gilt chairs have been placed on each side of the marble altar steps for the Royal party. Lady Louise will drive via High street, Kensington, Constitution Hill, The Mall, and Clarence Gate, where there are certain to be crowds of spectators. King George and Queen Mary gave a dinner last night at Buckingham Palace to the Crown Prince and Lady Louise, at which gold plate and a green Sevres ser vice were used. King Gustav appointed King George honorary admiral of the Swedish navy. King Gustav visited the Cenotaph, on which he laid a wreath.—A. and Cable. Lady Louise Alexandra Marie Irene Mountbatten, R.R.C., is the younger daughter of the late Admiral of the Fleet the Marquess of Milford Haven, formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, daughter of Queen Victoria, and thus tirst cousin of King George. Lady Louise was born on July 13, 1889, and was carefully educated under her mother’s supervision. She is not at all well known to the general public, and she has not shown any marked taste for social life in London, but is understood to prefer country pursuits. She is said by those who know her to be a lady of much originality and independence of mind, as well as charm of manner. When she was very young she was one of the bridesmaids at the marriage of the King and Queen, then Duke and Duchess of York. She has two brothers—the present Marquess of Milford Haven and Lord Louis Mountbatten, who married last year Miss Edwina Ashley, and one sister, who is the wife of Prince Andrew of Greece. Prince Oscar Frederic William Olaf Gustavus Adolphus, Duke of Skaane, was born at Stockholm on November 11, 1882, the elder son of the King of Sweden by his marriage to Victoria, Princess of Baden. Through his mother he combines with the blood of the Bemadottes that of the ancient house of Vasa, of which the last Sovereign was Charles Kill. EXCITED CROWDS BREAK CORDON. DETAILS OF WEDDING TOILETTES. LONDON, November 4. (Received Nov. 5, at 0.5 a.m.) There was so great a throng in front of the Palace when Lady Louise drove to the Chapel Royal that the police cordon was broken three times. The crowds, sweeping forward, surrounded the bridal car. Princess Beatrice looked the nicture of her mother Victoria in her younger days, wearing a dress of hydrangea blue and mauve velvet with a toque to match. Princess Mary wore a warm russet brown embroidered coat and brown plush hat. The Duchess of York looked beautiful in golden brown with silk embroidered coat. The most striking feature of the ceremony was the simplicity of Lady Louise’s hair, which was almost hidden beneath a wreath of orange buds crowning a heavy lace veil. Long sleeves half covered the bride’s hands. The bride carried a bunch of lilies of the valley mingled with myrtle." The train-bearers were the little nephew, Earl Medina, dressed in a white man-of-war suit, and niece, Lady Tatiana, in apricot georgette. The four sister bridesmaids also wore apricot georgette, and carried bouquets of Devonshire violets. Among the guests’ toilettes, black, grey, and autumnal shades of fawn brown were the outstanding colours. The Queen wore brown furs and a blue tissue toque. Queen Alexandra a slim, upright figure, was dressed in gold and black. Scores of candles illuminated the Chapel, which was decorated with the choicest flowers from Windsor Castle, gathered at the King’s request. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in his address to the royal couple, said: “In the presence of us witnesses to-day the honoured and trusted heir to the throne of a great people who has already won a place in ' our hearts has wedded the daughter of a gallant and beloved man to whose prescience, firmness, and resource England and her Allies owe a debt which is not forgotten.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.