ENGLISH BRIDE
(Press Assn.
WEDDING OF QUEEN'S NIECE TO ARMY OFFICER WQRE MOTHER'S BRIDAL YEIL
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
LONDON, Sunday. Autumn sunshine favoured the wedding of Lady May Cambridge to Captain Abel Smith yesterday. Twenty thousand people visited Balcombe. Lady May was a typical English bride. She wore a clinging white satin robe, with an exquisite Brussels lace veil, which Queen Mary and the bride's mother wore at their own weddings. The Queen was dressed in purple velvet, with a black velvet coat, trimmed with sable. The eight adult bridesmaids included Princess Ingrid of Sweden, and Princess Sybilla, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Princess Betty was one of the four child attendants. Arehbishop Carter, formerly of j Capetown where he was a close friend of the Earl and Countess, of Athlone, conducted the service, oeing assisted by the Bishop of Chichester and the rector of Balcombe. Sir Walford Davies direeted the village choir, which was reinforced by the choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 55, 27 October 1931, Page 3
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