SIMPLE MARRIAGE FOR WINDSORS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 105, 20 May 1937, Page 5

SIMPLE MARRIAGE FOR WINDSORS

■Press Assn.

Brief Ceremony Planned at Chateau TROUSSEAU COMPLETED

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(Received 20, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 1&. Mi. Dudley Forwood, equerry to the Duke of Windsor, who visited Buckingham Palace on May ""18, told the Daily Mail "that about 20 of th© Duko's personal friends would be ihvitod to the wedding from England. ' ' The Daily Mail's special correspondent at Tours says that the French eivil marriage ceremony is vefy brief and simple. Only two witnesses are required, ohe for the bride and one for the groom. The procedure is as follows:— ... The Mayor, turning to the Duke, will "Do you, Edward Albert Christihn George Andrew Patrick Davxd, Duke of Windsor, take Wallis Warfield to be your lawful wedded wifef" On the Duke assenting, the Mayor will then turn to Miss Warfield and say:— "Do you, Wallas Warfield, take Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Duke of Windsor, to be your lawful wedded husband?" On Miss Warfield also assenting, the Mayor will then read Articles 213, 214 and 215 of the civil code defining, with typical French brevity, the obligations of matried life. The Mayor will next hand to the Duke of Windsor the marriage certificate. This would normally end the ceremony, but owing to the wedding occurring at the Chateau instead of at the Town Hall, the Mayor will say: " We have come to the chateau to perform, under dispensation of the procuerer of the Republic, a marriage in the presence of these two witnesses." No religious ceremony is planned. The Duke ?s fiancee has completed her trousSeaU, comprising 48 dresses, which she obtained from a leading costumier in Paris. The Telegraph's Tours correspondent says' that the Duke of Windsor and Miss Warfield signed the regular marriage contract required by French law, permitting the parties to retain their own private property. In accordance with the Duke of Windsor 'a request a ciause Was inserted providing that the parties be subject to English law. The wedding guests are expected at the chateau about June 1. The Windsor guests will wear morning dress. There will be no formal wedding breakfast, but the guests will be eutertained a an informal iuncheon.