BEFORE THE WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 131, 4 June 1937, Page 9

BEFORE THE WEDDING

CROWDS IN MONTS

ROYAL WEDDING PRESENT

LONDON, June 3.

A message from Monts states that Mrs. Warfield rose at 8 a.m. and summoned her hairdresser and maids. She \vore a long-skirted cocktail dress of "Wallis blue," a shade between pastel and hyacinth blue, matching her eyes. Her trousseau comprises 80 dresses and 40 party hats.

Her gown had a higliTdraped neckline, and was worn with a fitted, longsleeved jacket of the same' shade. Her gloves were of the same blue, and she wore crepe high-heeled openwork sandals of a similar shade. Her hat was a tiny skull-cap in "Wallis blue" straw, with a turned-back halo brim in blue tulle, the base of which was a bandeau of blue and pale pink ostrich feathers.

The Duke wore a morning suit, wing collar, and white buttonhole.

DUKE PICTURE OF HAPPINESS,

While Mrs. Warfield was completing her toilet the Duke walked on the terrace of the chateau and consulted a French official regarding the roadprotection arrangements. The official subsequently said that the Duke was radiant and the very picture of happiness.

The sun grew steadily hotter as the morning advanced. The men- guests wore morning coats and top hats, and the women simple garden party dresses with wide straw hats. They rested in the shade of the trees while the preparations were being completed. The chateau decorations were, beautiful but simple, in compliance with Mrs. Warfield's wishes. The altar was decorated wilth syringa lilies and trails of clematis.

The "Daily Mail" says that the King and Queen sent a joint wedding present.

EJECTION OF "GATE-CRASHERS."

In preparation for the wedding, the police were busily' occupied in the early hours of the morning ejecting "gate-crashers" from the prohibited zone, which many entered last night under cover of darkness. Others hired rooms at peasants' houses in the precincts of the chateau. The cleverest glided up the River Indre, which flows within, 100 yards of the chateau itself. Special contingents of gendarmes were detailed for duty and there was rigid control of the enormous crowds in the neighbourhood of the chateau.