LADY ABDY MARRIED

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8361, 22 February 1913, Page 10

LADY ABDY MARRIED

YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY-FIVE AS THIRD HUSBAND. SECRECY PRECAUTIONS. LONDON) January 12. Seereey id weddmgd of well-known people is becoming quite popular* but the precautions taker) in Connection With Lady Abdyh marriage to Mr Maurice Grant exceeded those in any teoenfc affair of the sort. The bridegroom is a young man of .twenty-five. Instead of Lady Abdy’fi town house being used, the marriage took place jp-om the Rite Hotel. Several taxltabs were waiting outside the hotel for persona anxious to observe the wedding. Lady Abdy’s carnage and pair Waited in Arlington street for some |Ume While the preparations Were proceeding inside. The coachman and 'fereobi Were each Wearing large buttonholes of lilies of the valley. It was thought that.* start Was about to be Inade from this side of the hotel, but instead the carriage moved across Piccadilly to Stratton street, and there Waited for ft timo until a signal from the hotel, brought it speedily to the entrance. Lady Abdy_ was at the door, kad quickly stepped in. She was weartog 'a skirt or white satin charmeuse With a coat of white broche and a White tulle toque, with largo white ospreys. Meanwhile what appeared to bo a wedding car left tho hotel and made ott ia a direction which suggested that fiply Trinity, Sloane street, was the (tcudesToua, and a taxicab containing reporters followed it. . But the two cabs (Which had been waiting for Lady Abdy immediately followed her carriage up Bond street, along Conduit street, through Hanover square, across Regent Street, and up Portland place, to Holy rinity Church. On the way the’ bridegroom, accompanied by his best man, Mr Rowe, travelling in a motor oar, had passed Lady Ahdy’s carriage, and they waited tho bride's arrival at the chancel stops. In all there were about twenty people in the church when Lady Abdy arrived. Tho service, tommencing at 12.30 p.m., was over before 1 o’clock. Having signed the register the party left the church, and passed through a small shower of confetti to their carriage. Tho wedding breakfast was afterwards partaken ox in a private room at the Ritz Hotel, at which there were only six guests. 'Later- in the afternoon tho couple left, it Was stated, for the South of England, in a motor car, and will proceed shortly to tho Continent. Lady Abdy. who ia thirty-nine yearn of age, is described as the daughter or Louis Cohen, Major Royal Artillery. She first of all married the late General George Palmer Robinson, of the Indian Army, and on February 16th, 1909, she was married for tho second time to the late Sir WilKam Abdy, who was then sixty-four years old. Sir William died in August, 1910, and in his will ho stated that he bad made “liberal provision for my wife. Dame Fanny Abdy, by marriage settlement and gifts in my lifetime.” Lady Abdy nearly lost her life in an aeroplane accident at Brooklands in June, 1910. She paid Mr Grahame White 120 guineas lor a flight which lasted under half a minute and ended in a smash and very nearly a ducking in tho Weybridge brook. In tho following month she was reported to have offered £50.000 for the constructioin of on aerial passenger ship to travel between London and Paris. But she denied the report. In December, 1911, Lady Abdy charged a young actor with stealing a diamond and pearl brooch, value £295, from her room at the Savoy Hotel. At the Sessions the accused was found not guilty. He brought an action in the King’s Bench Division against Lady Abdy for damages for false imprisonment, and was awarded a farthing damages. ■