SHIPBOARD ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1923, Page 10

SHIPBOARD ROMANCE.

TITLED LADY’S MARRIAGE. TO WIRELESS OPERATOR. London, May 11. The marriage of Lady Pleasance Pous, the eldest daughter of the Governor of Victoria, the Earl of Stradbroke, reaus Dike a story book. She met her husband", Mr. Owen McKenna, on a P. and O. liner, on which he was the wireless operator, on a voyage to Rangoon. Before the voyage had ended Mr. McKenna had proposed, and was accepted; but the bride did not reveal her identity till Rangoon was reached. Lord iStradbroke was informed, and gave his consent. The couple returned to Scotland, where they waited only fill the necessary residential qualification of 21 days had been fulfilled, when they were qulietly married. None of the bride’s family was present. The couple left to spend the honeymoon in Ireland. Lady Pleasance was a Protestant, but before the ceremony was admitted to the Roman Catholic Church.

The Countess of Stradbroke contradicted, in an interview with a representative of the London Daily Mail, the suggestion that the wedding took place in face of the opposition of herself and her husband. She said that they would have attended the wedding if they could have arrived in time. They telegraphed their congratulations from Marseilles.

Asked if the engagement had her approval, the Countess replied that the young people had the consent of herself and her husband. They had not seen the bridegroom, but he had written to them.

They had known of the engagement for some time, and thought that the icason why the wedding took place rather hurriedly was that the bridegroom had to return to his ship. The Countess gave her daughter a pearly necklace and a diamond clasp. The bridegroom’s father is a colliery waggoner, and is enthusiastic about his aristocratic daughter-in-law. “She s good as she’s Bonnie,” he said.