AN EARL’S SECRET

Otago Witness, Issue 3619, 24 July 1923, Page 26

AN EARL’S SECRET

REVEALED BY DEATH. A war romance of the peerage, which wa s hidden for seven years, was revealed by the death of the Earl of Breadalbane, a few weeks ago, in a Boscombe nursing home. He was wedded secretly in 1916 to a young actress, a member of a touring company. Miss Marie Reeves-Hunt, and the marriage has remained a secret since, except. to a few friends. The ceremony took place at St. Giles Register Office, Bloomsbury, on September 18, 1916, when the earl, then Mr Campbell, was a naval lieutenant. On the certificate the bridegroom and bride are described as follows: — lain Edward Herbert Campbell, naval lieutenant, bachelor, 31, son of John Campbell. captain, Cameron Highlanders. Marie Laura Reeves-Hunt, 26, spinster, theatrical artist, daughter of a building contractor. So close was the secret kept that in peerage reference books the late earl was described as a bachelor, and even when he succeeded to the title last October his marriage did not come to light.

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