DRESSMAKERS INVITED TO ROYAL WEDDING

Chronicle (Levin), 3 November 1947, Page 7

DRESSMAKERS INVITED TO ROYAL WEDDING

LONDON, Nov. 2. Princess Elizabeth has invited to her wedding the girls who helped to make her wedding dress and old family servants, Mistesses Catherine and' 'Eta MacLean. Four kings and six queens have ac-' eepted invitations to attend the wedding of Princess Elizabeth. Twentyeiglit foreign royalties will attend, ail relations or close personal friends of the rrincess and Lieutenant Mounl batten. Among those who have aceepted are the Kings of Norway and Eumania, the King and Queen of Denrnark, the Queen of Greece, Queen Helen of ltuinania, King Peter and Queen Alexandria of Yugoslavia, Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, Prince Oharies oi Belgium, Princess Juliana- and Prince Bernhard of the Netlielands, the Crown Prince and Princess of fciweden, Princess Andres of Greece (Lieutenant Montbatten ?s mother), Prince and Princess George of Greece, " the Duchess of Aosta, Princess Christopher and Princess Eugenie of Greece, Princess Axel of Dcnmark, Prince and Princess Rene de Bourbou Parme,, Prince George and Prince Fleming of Denjrnurk, Prince John and Princess Elizabeth of Luxemburg. The Aga Khan's gift to Princess Klizabotli will be a tinely-bred tilJy, a t'oal by Tu»kham from the Hyperion mare Hastra. The Daily Telegraph says the gift opens speculation as to whether the Princess, in Eoyal tradition, will have her own racilig stable. The foal is a Jescendant of Derby and St. Leger winners. The Saddlers Company has given the Princess an astride saddle and a ieathercovered switeh. A message from Berlin says MarshaJ of the Roval Air Force Sir Sholto Douglas, the retiring British Military Governor of Germany, protested to Marshal Sokolovsky in the Allicd Control Council against an article headed "Cinderolla Has a Wedding," in the Soviet-licensed newspaper the Berliner Zietung. Sir Sholto said the article was a sarcastic recital of the austerity measures announced for Princess Elizabeth 's wedding. Marshal Sokolovsky replied that he had already ordered administrativc action against the newspaper. His Majesty has decided to aecept a loyal ad dress from the National Boara of Catholic Women on the occasion ot Princess Elizabeth 's wedding, thus giving Roman Catholics a status they have uot enjoyed since James II was overthrown in Religious and sccular bodies previously having the privilege of presenting such an address included the Anglicans, Free Churehmen, Quakers and Jews. I)r. Genevieve Newcastle. chalrman of the National Board of Catholic Women, wrote to his Majesty, Princess Kli/.abetli and (he Ilome Secretary (j\ir. Chuter Ede) sayiug his Majesly's millions oi' Roman Catholic sub jects shared the nation 's joy over Princess Klizai.beih's approaching marriage. but were v:pa|ined that'.their ecclesiastical leaders wtve-res aTone debarred from presenting a loyal address. The Vatican radio complained on ' October 16 tliat Ihe marriage sliowed the unsatisfactory position of Euglish Ca.thqlicsptyho were pot allowed to ad- : Xieujehtiiit WIqpn-{i(>njLfft5U: fillecl his -'6 rat pub'Hc • ' ^ligagenteirrti^nc'e-. hi s bethrotlial to Princess Elizabeth When he unveiled the Corsham war meniorial. w* r^if, _.v ' — ■