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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12646, 2 June 1919, Page 7

ills announcement of the engagement of Viscount Edna in , the eldest- sou of Hie Ear! of Dudley, to Lady Rosemary Lemon-Gower, sister of the present Duke oi Sutherland, disposes of an interesting prediction in regard to the future of the young lady. Stafford House, near St James’s Palace, which was the town house of the LcvesonGower family until it was sold hi 1913 by Lady Rosemary's father (tho fourth Duke of Sutherland), was the most sumptuous private residence in London. Queen Victoria, when she lived at Sti James’s Palace (writes the Loudon correspondent of Melbourne “ Age’’), was a frequent visitor to Stafford House, and enviously expressed the opinion that it w;m more palatial than, her own abode. For several generations the younger members of the Royal Family had been in the habit.of visiting informally the younger members of the Lcveson-Gower family at Stafford House, and in this way Lady Rosemary, tho prospective bride of the Viscount Edna in, was often in the company of the Prince of Wales and his sisters and brothers. When the suggestion was recently made in the newspapers that tho loyalty of the British nation to the) Throne would bo strengthened if tho Royal Princes were to seek their brides among the daughters of the British peerage, instead of among foreign Princesses, it was whispered that the Prince of Wales would choose as his bride the young lady of Stafford House, with whom ho had been on friendly terms from boyhood! It was regarded as significant that, one of the exhibitions of war paintings by British artists sent to France included the Prince of Wales in uniform talking to Lady Rosemary Lsvesou-Gower in the uniform of a nurse. Daring tho war Lady Rosemary was a V.A.D. nurse at a. hospital in France established by her mother. Stafford House wa s purchased in 1912 by Lord Leverluilme (.Sir William Lever) from the father of the present Duke of Sutherland. Lord Lcverhnlmo presented this beautiful mansion to the nation, and it has been turned into a public museum.