ROYAL WEDDING.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1923, Page 2

ROYAL WEDDING.

I’RTXCF.b'S MACD AND LORD DA UNDO IK. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON. Vovfinher PL At the wedding of I’times- Maud the gent'emeu and children of the Chapel Royal choir, in scarlet am! gold uniform, added a picturesque touch of colour to the elm:tiling scene made by tho dies-e? and uniforms. The bride was seven minutes late, causing King (■dirge to make amusing comments to the six bridesmaids who were waiting with him in th- porch. When the bride arrived, the King led her up the church. She was an entrancing picture in a robe of crystal, silver and jsoail The bridesmaids in blue, followed her. The King gave the bride away, with a slight how. The l’rimus of the Scottish Episcopal Cliurth. in an address to the wedded couple, used the words of the psalmist and wished them good luck in the name of the Lord. Outside the church Lord Carnegie's brother officers made an arch of swords, and the pair drove off to the cheerful music of Tfeiland Laddie’ played by the Sects Ouards pipers. Princess Aland, in response to the cl, cers of the-crowd outside her mother's house, twite appeared at the window, and displayed her wedding gown and her going-away ft oak of beaver crepe marocain. but she slac k her head when the crowd, ehieflv women, waved handkerchiefs and cried “Oh. come down !’’ Later Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary came to the window and waved their hatifls to the crowd in the Square. ;