ROYAL VISIT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18904, 20 January 1927, Page 5

ROYAL VISIT.

DUKE OF YORK'S STAFF.

SOME CHANGES. (FROM OUR OWK COBRESrOSDEXT.) LONDON, December 15. For reasons of a private nature, Lieut-Commander Claire Vyncr, It.N., and Lady Doris Vyner are not able to accompany the Duke and Duchess ot York on theiwconiing tour to New Zealand and Australia. Those appointed in their place are Major Terence E. G. Nugent, lr,ish Guards, and the Hon. Mrs Little-Gilmour (to bo Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of York). Major Nugent, a grandson of Sir Edmund Nugent, of West Harling Hall, Norfolk, will be extra equerry. His father, Brigadier-General George Nugent, was killed in action during the Great War, in which Major Nugent was wounded.

The "Graphic" discerns a peculiar appropriateness in the selection of the Hon. Mrs Little-Gilmour as Lady-in-Waiting, for her husband is the grandson of Mrs Wolrige (Miss Ann Gordon), of Hallhead, the senior representative of the family to which Adam Lindsay Gordon, tho laureate of Australasia, belonged. Miss Gordon married Colonel Henry Wolrige, who chanacd his name first to Gordon-Wolrige and then to WolrigeGordon. His eldest son took the name of Gordon-Gilmour, and his son in turn is known as Little-Gilmour, and is the husband of the Duchess's Lady-in-Wait-ing. She takes the place of Lady Doris Vyner. whose husband, curiously enough, also changed his name—from Compton to Vyncr.

A Well-Known Traveller. ... A very great friend of the Duke and Duchess of York, the Hon. Mrs ltonald Greville, may be in New Zealand at tho same time. Mrs Grevillo is leaving Marseilles by the Naldera on Christmas Eve. She is a very charming woman, and one who has travelled extensively, though this will be her first trip to the Dominion, whose acquaintance she is very eager to make. Mrs Greville—who, in 1922, was created Dame Margaret Helen Anderson, D.B.E.—was a daughter of the late Rt. Hon. William McEwan, P. 0., M.P., for Edinburgh. She married the eldest son of the second Baron Greville in 1891. Ho died in 1908. Her husband's mother, nee Lady Beatrice Violet Graham, was a daughter of the fourth Duke of Montrose. Mrs Greville's beautiful country home, Polesden Lacy, near Dorking, was, it will be remembered, lent by her to the Duke and Duchess of York for their honeymoon. Mrs Greville wss n ereat friend of King Edward, and Queen Alexandra, and consequently she has been intimately acquainted with their prandchildren aIV their lives. In social circlos she is a very wellknown personality. / Some Dainty Dresses.

Naturally tho Duchess of York has been very busy getting new frocks for her journey. A few days ago she was seen' to alight, unaccompanied from a great limousine car, at the entrance to a well-known showroom in Maddox street. c Here, it is related, she spent a couple of hours in the exciting business of trying on new frocks that have been prepared. "Simplicity" (ono reads in a London paper), "is the keynote of the majority of the dresses chosen by the 'Little Duchess.' It is true that a feiv picture dresses are included in the outfit she has selected for her coming tour, but most of her dresses, whether for the day or evening, are very plain, and, where an embroidered model ha 3 been chosen, the decoration is generally speaking, omitted in the copy. As to colours, lilac, mauve, the pink that has a tint of biscuit about it, and the soft hedfre-sparrow-egtj blue, both of which suit the Duchess remarkably well, figure conspicuously in the frocks she has chosen. There are hats to match the day frocks. The majority or these are small, with upturned brims, and are trimmed with a cluster of ribbons, feathers, or some kind of ornamer.t on the right side. s "Several jumper suits are included in the outfit. One is of platinum ~'ey crepe de chine. Another one-pie"e affair in silvery crepe de chine has a deep tuck round the hips that gives a jumper effect. Another jumper toilette is pxoressed in terms of lilac mauve chiffon moire and crenelln .in the samo shade. The crepella skirt has stitched bos treats, and coat of the same material. The jumper of chiffon moiro has a low hip belt and oveiv hppins? petals of the moire in front. Among the eveniii" mowns. ,n picture model in vellow chiffon velvet has. a. bodre and a wide, almost hooped skirt, and another nicture frock is of neach tinted es" ,7 ° velvet., A straight dress of pink Miiffon has a pink lame foundation. The long cross-over_cors-age is plain. The gathered skirt is trimmed with plternnte 'ribbons' or "hiffon sewn with pink crvstals.and other's covered with rather h-rge circular paillettes of pink sphynx."