A DUKE’S BRIDE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 10 (Supplement)

A DUKE’S BRIDE

MISS LOELIA PONSONBY.

Miss Loelia Ponsonby, whose engagement has been recently announced in London to the Duke of Westminister, Is the daughter of Sir Frederick and Lady Ponsonby. She is the author of some interesting articles on “The Young Men of To-day,” and very vivaciously she has written them. She writes, as she talks, with force, originality. and candour. Miss Ponsonby has her father’s independence of mind. It was Sir Frederick with whom the ex-Kaiser became almost ferociously angry recently. over the publication of the frank letters of the Empress Frederick, Wilhelm’s mother. Miss Ponsonby is not excessively given to sport. She prefers travel—in this she is like the Duke—and meeting interesting people; and one proof of her popularity is that she is friendly with groups who do not always intermingle. She is more fond of the moated Elizabethan manor—Tangley—that is her father and mother’s country place, than she is of living in London, and she spends most of her time there. Sir Frederick and Lady Ponsonby live, when they are in London, at St. James’ Palace. Miss Ponsonby, tiring of her room as it was, has had it entirely redecorated, and furnished in the most modern and amusing manner. It must be the only room in the palace to have been so transformed.