ROMANCE ON STEAMER.

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19991, 15 September 1936, Page 4

ROMANCE ON STEAMER.

DAUGHTER OF COUNTESS. TO WED A PUBLICAN’S SON. I It is announced that in an Eastend church shortly the daughter of an Italian countess will marry the son of a Dagenham publican, says a London paper. The bride-to-be is Miss Sylvia Lewis, only daughter of Comtessa Val St. Laurito and Mr John Lewis, of London, and Palermo. The bridegroom is Mr William Frederick Stiles, the only son of Mr and Mrs W. F. Stiles of the Merry Fiddlers, Becontree Heath. Mr Stiles told the story of his romance in the saloon bar of his father’s public-house. “Sylvia did not inform me her mother was a countess until we had been engaged some time,” he said. “She feared it would make a differ“l met her on a Channel steamer a year ago. I was listening to the radio in my car, when I got in conversation with her mother, who later introduced me to her daughter. "We dined together, and some weeks later I asked her mother if she would | object to us becoming engaged.” The couple are to be married at the Catholic church of Saints Mary and Michael. Miss Lewis was educated in a convent at Bayswater and later went to a finishing school in Paris. M r Stiles is a former welter-weight boxing champion and is the youngest boxing promoter on the British Boxing Board of Control.