LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT SAYS FIANCEE OF MARQUESS OF MILFORD HAVEN

Wanganui Chronicle, 5 October 1949, Page 5

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT SAYS FIANCEE OF MARQUESS OF MILFORD HAVEN

LONDON, Sept. 29.—“ This is a marriage for keeps,” said the slim, vivacious Amer can, Mrs Romaine Simpson, aged 27, whose engagement to the Marquess of Milford Haver has been announced. Linking her arm through the Marquess's, in a tuxury suite at Claridge’s, she smiled, and added: “We are madly in love. It was a case of love at first sight, wasn’t it, David?” The Marquess, looking nervous and ill-at-ease, smilingly agreed. Mrs Simpson said the wedding was planned for November in her mother’s home at Washington. They would spend the winter in the United States, where the Marquess has business engagements.

“We then hope to return to England and take a house somewhere in the country,” said Mrs Simpson, who speaks with a pronounced American drawl. “I long for the simple life in the English countryside,” she added. “I hope we have children. I love

Asked what would happen to Gwendolen, her 20-months-old daughter of her previous marriage to wealthy Wall Street stockbroker William Simpson, whom she divorced at Reno for cruelty, Mrs Simpson said: “Nothing is settled yet. Gwendolen will stay in the United States for the present I prefer not to discuss the mater.”

As Mrs Simpson talked she twisted a huge emeraeld around on her engagement finger, but said it was not an engagement ring but “just one of my family pieces.” Mrs Simpson seemed anxious to refute reports that she is wealthy. “I have some money of my own,” she said, “and a small amount of alimony.

“I haven’t a large wardrobe, and can afford one or two Schiaparelli suits a year, that’s all."

(The average Schiaparelli model costs 100 guineas.)