THIRD MARRIAGE TO-DAY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 43, 20 February 1930, Page 9

THIRD MARRIAGE TO-DAY

DUKE OF WESTMINSTER

GREAT FESTIVITIES

LONDON, 18th February,

■ Tho Duke of Westminster's wedding is expected to tako place at a registry office on Thursday. '

Tho reception will be aboard the magnificent yacht Cutty Sark, lying in the Thames, which, whou tho guests depart, .will steam away on a honeymoon trip in tho Mediterranean.

The Duke has cancelled a week's rent of a thousand poor tenants on Ida estate in London. His cottagers in Flintshire, Cheshire, havo -also been forgiven arroars.

Miss Ponsonby to-day is giving a trousseau tea to her girl friends.

It was reported last month that Sir Frederick Ponsonby's daughter^ Loelia Mary, became engaged to marry the Duke of Westminster. The Duke, who owns great estates, including 600 acres in London, is renowned as a big game hunter and yachtsman. Miss Ponsonby is tall and dark and a witty conversationalist.

Miss P6nsonby is the third wifo of the Duke of Westminster, who is 51 years of age. Ho married in 1901 Constance Cornwallis-Wcst, who divorced him in 1918, and was married in 1920 to Captain Jasper Lewis. The Duke married again, in 1920, Miss Violet Nelson, daughter of Sir W. Nelson. She divorced him in 1926, and subsequently in 1927 was married to the Hon. Frederick Cripps, sou of Lord' Parmoor. A recent cable message stated that Mr, and Mrs. Cripps had opened up a barber's shop, in Bond street.