The Chequers Wedding

Southland Times, Issue 21820, 24 September 1932, Page 17

The Chequers Wedding

Dr. Joan MacDonald, the Premier of England’s second daughter, was married to Dr. Alistair MacKinnon on Tuesday of this week at the Scottish Congregational Church at Wendover, near Chequers, according to the ceremony of the Church of Scotland. The reception was held at Chequers. The wedding itself was a very quiet one, both the bride and bridegroom disliking a great deal of fuss. Invitations outside the family circle included old Lossiemouth friends of the Prime Minister and Edinburgh medical students who were attending the university at the same time as the bride and bridegroom. Like many modem brides, Miss MacDonald decided to have a “white” wedding. She was to be attended by four small bridesmaids—Bridget and Jean MacDonald, the daughters of her architect, brother, Alister, and Audrey and Rosemary, the daughters of Mr Godfrey Elton, the author of “England, Arise.” Most of her trousseau the bride bought in Edinburgh. coooo New Lindbergh Baby. The entire country of America learned with delight on August 16 that a second son had been born to Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh at the home of Mrs Dwight W. Morrow, the widowed mother of Mrs Lindbergh, at Englewood, New Jersey. Everybody had hoped that the awaited baby would be a boy to replace, in some measure, the child stolen from the Lindbergh residence at Hopewell and murdered five and a-half months ago. Mrs Morrow returned from a trip to Europe to be present at the day’s event. The colonel had meanwhile sought solace from his grief at the loss of his first child in incessant occupation. Now he has appealed to the Press to spare his second child the “publicity which we feel was, in a large measure, responsible for the death of our first. We feel that our children have a right to grow up normally with other children,” he declares.