ROYAL WEDDING
ARRANGEMENTS FOR CEREMONY United Press Association— By Electrte Teieera ph —Copyright LONDON, November 5. The Bishop of London will open the Duke of Gloucester’s marriage service. While Lady Alice and her eight bridesmaids walk, down tira aisle, the hymn “Praise My Soul” will be sung. The Archbishop of Canterbury will perform the marriage ceremony. 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. Wedding Presents Exhibited. Nearly 3000 attended the 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 arrival, the Queen, with the Duke and Lady Alice, walked through the state apartments and afterwards mingled with the guests.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20259, 7 November 1935, Page 11
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194ROYAL WEDDING Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20259, 7 November 1935, Page 11
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