ROYAL WEDDING

Southland Times, Issue 22732, 7 November 1935, Page 5

ROYAL WEDDING

ARRANGEMENTS FOR SERVICE.

ADDRESS BY THE PRIMATE. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, November 5. The Bishop of London will open the Duke of Gloucester’s marriage service to-morrow, and while Lady Alice and her eight bridesmaids walk down the aisle the hymn “Praise My Soul” will be sung. The Archbishop of Canterbury will perform the marriage ceremony, and Lady Alice will promise to obey. The Primus of Scotland will pray for God’s blessing, and the Archbishop of Canterbury will give a short address and will end the service with a blessing, after which the couple will go to the adjacent household drawing-room and sign the register to the strains of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March.” One hundred and twenty guests will attend the wedding breakfast, the King proposing the only toast, the health of the couple. PRESENTS ON VIEW RECEPTION AT ST. JAMES’S. (British Official Wireless). Rugby, November 5? Nearly three thousand guests attended a reception at St. James’s Palace when the Royal wedding presents were on view. The Duke of Gloucester with his fiancee, Lady Alice Scott, drove with the Queen from Buckingham Palace to St. James’s. On their arrival the Queen, with the Duke and Lady Alice, walked through the State apartments and afterwards mingled with the guests. ROYAL SALUTE FIRED SHIPS OF NEW ZEALAND NAVY. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, November 6. The two Imperial sloops attached to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Leith and H.M.S. Wellington and the training ship Philomel were dressed to-day for the occasion of the wedding of the Duke of Gloucester and Lady Alice Scott. A royal salute of 21 guns was fired at noon.