AN EARL’S ROMANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17568, 19 June 1925, Page 10

AN EARL’S ROMANCE.

WEDS ARCHITECT’S DAUGHTER. LONDON. April 24. ■ i"ina ll eo <>i the vuung Karl of Cardigan ami his pi, I hridc has been brought to a happy climax. Two veers ago the Earl, who is the heir of the Alarrpjm of Ailesbujv, met at: a. dance at Oxford, where he was an nndergiadnate. M.ics ..loan Salter. She is * the daughter of * well-known, architect. hut he was introduced to her as ••Mr Cardigan.'’ and for some time she. was ignorant of his title They took to each other at once, •hey had mutual friends and both were keen on darning, tennis ami riding. I hey became engaged, and then Cnrdigan feared what his family would say. ’J her,, was no reason why he should not., marry Miss Salter, hut be was still only an undergraduate'. So last July, when tbe Oxford vacation began, tiny went, to- a register office in Islewurth town, near Richmond, and v\erc married quietly, i ll the presence ••I two of tho bride's friends. For a time they did not live together, and the Karl continued his Oxford course without any cue suspecting he was a married man. =+• r l'li" story came out last month. J ,lf l the Karl s Runily wore informed. Hu- only object ion they could raise wn> that at the civil ceremony the bridegroom gallantly gave lii.s age as tnenjy-onc. the same as th© bride's, though ,l*o is a few months younger. Regally the mis-statement, made no difference, but. it was thought better to have a. religious ceremony, and this look ji'.lace on Friday. Ibis time'it, was fully recognised by the nresenee of tbe bridegroom's father and mother, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesburv. with a private- chaplain of the marquis as one of the officiating clergy A large crowd gathered fo r tbe ceremony at St Mark's ('limvli. South Audloy Street, but Kiev found the doors locked as soon as ihe bridegroom entered, and a strong tone of police kept The bride arrived in a biscuit coloured costume, and. after a. short interval. a bisonit-clacl ladv emerged from the church on the arm of a tall and embarrassed young man. Cheers rang out and the crowd surge.l forward and hats were waved. But ten minutes lal or down a narrow passage from the back door of the church another biscviit-gowred damsel and a young man lmrried. Verv pleased wiih himself he looked, and as he hailed a pn.-sing Givi, he cried : “Tr.'s all right, dear, wc have tricked them fairly."