SCENE AT A ROYAL WEDDING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2981, 19 January 1917, Page 3

SCENE AT A ROYAL WEDDING

FRANTIC CROWD OF CURIOUS WOMEN. A "passer-by" writes ,to the "Daily Mail":—"Thero'was an extraordinary scene yesterday outsido the Chapel Hoyal, St. James's Palace, at the wedding of Prince George of Battenberg and Countess Nada Torby. A great crowd of women had assembled. AVJien the bride left tho women surged forward in a tumultuous wave. A Press photographer who was standing with his tripod fixed was swept off his feet by the excited pack; man and camera wero overthrown, ruthlessly trampled on, and submerged by the human wave. Tho photographer—a rather frail man who has been rejected by the Army — was badly injured in a leg. and had to bo sent 1 liome in a cab. All his plates wero smashed.

"I have heard, and taken hitherto with a grain of salt, stories of women' b violence at bargain sales, but no satirist's depiction of such scenes could exceed yesterday's ruthless exhibition. One can only charitably imagine that all those women were carried away by tlio intensity of their curiosity and excitement. The. scene raised that old question fEat man can never answer — 'Why do women take such an inordinate interest in weddings of peoplo they do not) know? . Urgent appeals appearing almost daily in tho papers call upon educated, unoccupied women for war work; but women do not seo them. T\vo_ lines in a paper announcing a fashionable wedding bring crowds of unoccupied women to stare and hustle."