UNIQUE BALL GIVEN
DIVORCED DUKE AND DUCHESS DAUGHTER COMES OF AGE (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Thursday. A unique ball was given this evening at the Brook Street mansion of the Duke of Westminster. The millionaire duke stood beside his former duchess, who divorced him in 1919, and together they received 400 guests to celebrate the coming of age of their daughter, Lady Alary Grosvenor. The guests included members of the leading families in England. The first wife of the present Duke of Westminster, mother of Lady Alary Grosvenor, was formerly Afiss Constance Edwina Cornwallis-West, youngest daughter of the late Air. W. C. CornwallisWest. She married the duke in 1901 and divorced him in 1919, afterwards marrying Captain James F. Lewis, formerly of the Royal Air Force. In 1920 the duke was married again, this time to Aliss Violet Rowley, daughter of Sir William Nelson, who divorced him in 1925. The duke owns about 30,000 acres of land in Cheshire and Flintshire, an estate in Scotland, and 600 acres in London.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 9
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175UNIQUE BALL GIVEN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 9
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