NOVEL INVITATION TO LONDON WEDDING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18627, 3 December 1928, Page 13

NOVEL INVITATION TO LONDON WEDDING.

LONDON, November 14. “ Will you come to our wedding at the Savoj r Chapel? Please bring this card.—Sheila and Buffles,” was the invitation which Lady Loughborough and Sir John Milbanke issued for their wedding to-day. The chapel was crowded, the guests including Lord and Lady Denham, the Duke of Sutherland, the Alaharajah of Kashmir, the Maharanee of Coochbehar, Lady Louis Alountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Sir Philip Sassoon and many other fashionable persons, whose motors congested the Strand traffic. Stewards stood at the doorway to prevent uninvited persons from entering. The civil ceremony had previously been held at the registrar’s office, where the bride and bridegroom arrived accompanied by the bridegroom’s brother, Miss Poppy Baring and a wolfhound with his collar adorned with a huge white silk bow. Sheila Lady Loughborough is a daughter of Mr Harry Chisholm, of Sydney. She •divorced Lord Loughborough in 1926. Sir John Alilbanke, who is twenty-six years of age, is known as “ the boxing baronet.” He is a well-known athlete.