VISCOUNT’S ROMANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 37, 6 May 1927, Page 1

VISCOUNT’S ROMANCE

DUKE AND HEIRESS MOTOR SMASH ON WEDDING EVE PLUCKY AUSTRALIAN GIRL By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 8.50 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. Behind the wedding of Viscount Mandeville to Miss Nell Vere-Stead, at Kimbolton Church, St. Neot’s, today, is a romance originating at Ceylon, where the bride arrived for a change after the death of her mother in Australia.

She and Viscount Mandeville met at a private party ashore and were soon betrothed, though the news only leaked out following Viscount Mandeville’s return with the battlecruiser Hood on Saturday on shore leave. Despite the hurry and secrecy all the villagers turned out for the wedding to see the tall, slight, handsome, brunette bride who had been staying with the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, at Kimbolton Castle, where the honeymoon is to be spent. The bride described herself as spinster, of Melbourne, daughter of Sidney Vere-Stead, land owner. The newspapers call her a millionairess. It was revealed after the wedding that the bride had been injured in a motor smash in the West End the previous evening.

Viscount Mandeville was driving wheat the car was hit from the roadside by another car. Miss Vere-Stead was shaken, cut and bruised and the car was smashed. After treatment the doctor decided not to postpone the wedding, after which Viscount Mandeville said: “We are happily married to-day because my wife is one of the pluckiest girls one could meet.”

Miss Vere-Stead only arrived in England for the first time a week ago. "As a matter of fact, I have only one suit case and I am still awaiting my luggage from Australia,” she said.— A. and N.Z.

Viscount Alexander George Francis Montagu Mandeville, eldest son of the Duke of Manchester, is a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. He was born in 1902.