LADY MYRTLE JELLICOE
BRILLIANT LONDON WEDDING News of the marriage of Lady Myrtle Jellieoe to Mr Lionel Maxwell Balfour was cabled this week, the message describing the wedding as one of tho most briluant of the London season. A writer in tho Daily Telegraph of May 5. stated: “Dour members of tho Royal Family will attend All Souls’ Langham Place, on June 11, to see Admiral Lord Jellieoe give away his second Lady Myrtle, at her wedding to the aviator, Mr. L. MJ. Balfonr. The Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice are to be present, and in addition Princesses Helena, Victoria and Mario Louise. “The King’s aunt, Princess Beatrice, sent the bride the first present she received. It is a beautiful painted ivory fan. and Lady Jellieoe told mo that the Princess sent it before leaving for her Continental holiday. The Princess has just celebrated her 75th. birthday, and although she will not attend the service, is making an exception to her rule against social functions by attending the reception the afternoon before the wedding. “There has been no bride in Lord Jellieoe’s family for four generations, and possiblv not for 200 years, Lady Jellieoe told me. The only weddings have been of male members, of the family. IVhile she was telling me what a pretty wedding it will be, the bride herself was at. the dressmaker’s being fitted for her wedding gown. Bride, bridesmaids and page will be in parchment. Their dresses and the bridesmaids’ red roses will match the white lilies and British Legion poppies that decorate the church. “Lady Myrtle’s throe sisters, Lady Gwendoline, Lady Norah, and Lady Prudence, will all be bridesmaids, and her 14-year-old brother, Lord Brocas, is getting leave from inehester to be one of the 12 ushers. There is to be another adult bridesmaid, two, small girlss and page, making a retinue of seven: A horseshoe of myrtle and orange blossom will be attached to Lady Myrtle’s train, and she will have myrtle and orange flowers on her head.’’ Tho bride was born on August 28, 1908.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 140, 16 June 1932, Page 2
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