PLANS FOR ROYAL WEDDING

Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1947, Page 5

PLANS FOR ROYAL WEDDING

LONDON, OCT. 5. Thi' i'onn of imirriiige in the Hook oi Coiiinion Prny.'r will be used at the Avethliiig of I'rimwss Elizabeth ami Lienteiianl Mountbatten, states an of fieial announcexnent. The Archbishoj. of Canterlmrv will officiate, with tlio Dean of West niinster aml the Precentor. The Arehbisho]) of York will give the aihlress, and the servie.es will begn with ihe exhortation to those about to be niarried, with the King standing at the bride's left. Then will follow tlm i-liarge by the Arehbishop of , Canterbniy. the giving away of the bride ano the exchange of vows. Prineess Elizabeth and Lieutenan; Mountbatten will sig'n four books — the register, a duplieate register which ikept in the Abbev, the Kyyal Book, ii which are entered all births, deaths and marriages of the lioyal Paniilv, and tluWhite Hook in which the Abbev re cords its great visitors. Beuters says the words of the bride b vow in the Hook oi Conniion Prsiye. are: " Love, eherish and obey." Thiis the only fomt of vow now given in the Book of Conunon Prayer. An earlier edition carried an alternative form. froni which "obev" was omitted. A ehurch authority said Parliament did not iiccept the 192s revision of tlu Prayer Hook, from which "obey" was omitted. The revision, thcrefore, wjo illegal from Parliiiment 's view-poin*. thongh the Hisho])s ueeepted it. Prineess Elizabeth will take [>art in the eeremonial opening of Parliameni on October 2(1 for the first time, reports the Sundav Titnes. llitherto she ha.been only a speetator. She will driv.in a semi-State procession to the Housi of Lords and will take a place behin. Their Majesties as tliev walk in jiroces sion to the thrones in the Pppe: Clijtinber.