ROYAL WEDDING.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1923, Page 5

ROYAL WEDDING.

NIECE OF THE KING. MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS MAUD. ANOTHER LINK WITH SCOTLAND. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 13, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 12. The wedding of Princess Maud, niece of the King, to Lord Carnegie, eldest son of the Earl and Countess of Southesk, took place in the Guards’ Chapel, Wellington Barracks. Great crowds outside cheered the couple, Their Majesties, the Prince of Wales, Princes Henry and George, Princess Mary, Lord Lascelles, and the Duke and Duchess of York were present.

The gentlemen and children of the Chapel Royal choir, in scarlet and gold uniforms, added a picturesque touch of color to the charming scene made by the dresses and uniforms. The bride was seven minutes late, causing the King to make amusing comments to the six bridesmaids who were waiting with him in the porch. When the bride arrived the King led her up the church. She looked an entrancing picture in robes of crystal silver pearl, the 'bridesmaids, wearing blue, following. The King gave away the bride with a slight bow.

The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, in his address to the wedded couple, used the words of the psalmist and wished them good luck in the name of the Lord.; Outside the church Lord Carnegie’s brother officers made an arch of swords, and the pair drove off to the cheerful music of “Hieland Laddie,” played by the Scots Guards’ pipers. Princess Maud, in response to the cheers of the crowd outside her mother’s house, twice appeared at the window and displayed her wedding gown and her going away frock of beaver crepe marocain, but she shook her head when the crowd, chiefly composed of women, waved handkerchiefs and cried, “Do come down.” Later Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary came to the window and waved their hands to the crowd in the square.

Princess Maud, who was born in 1893, is the second daughter of the Princess Royal, King Edward’s eldest daughter, and sister of Princess Arthur of Connaught, Duchess of Fife. The death of her father, the first Duke of Fife, in January. 1912, followed closely on the wreck of the P. and O. liner Delhi, at Cane Spartel, some fourteen miles from Tangier, when the Princess Royal, the Duke, and their daughters suffered great hardships. Princess Maud, like her sister, plays a good game of golf, and is fend of fishing and outdoor sports. Lord Carnegie, who is in his 30th year, went from Eton to Sandhurst, and in 1913 was gazetted a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards. On the outbreak of war he went on active service with his regiment. He was promoted captain in October, 1914, and in September, 1917, was appointed A.D.C. to Viscount Chelmsford, the then Viceroy of India, a post ho held till 1919. The principal seat of the Earl of Southesk is Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, a large and handsome building? part of which is very old. It stands in a walled-in park of 1300 acres, famous for its Highland cattle.