Duke’s Gifts to His Bride

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 940, 5 April 1930, Page 20

Duke’s Gifts to His Bride

JEWELS AND FURS DISPLAY AT SPINSTER PARTY | The day before her wedding to the Duke of Westminster, Miss Noelia Ponsonby hurried home from a final shopping expedition in the West End to prepare for a tea party with her unmarried girl friends at the home of her father, Sir F. Ponsonby, the King’s Treasurer, in St. James’s Palace, writes a London correspondent. Upstairs in the drawing-room were the wedding presents which Miss Ponsonby showed her friends. In a glass case were all the marvellous jewels which the Duke of Westminster had given his bride, but her favourite still is her large square sapphire and diamond engagement ring. Six bracelets were there, four long and flexible massed with diamonds, and differing in shape. Two of them were set with s.quare sapphires, one i with emeralds, another with rubies, i Yet another was like a child’s bead necklace, made of round stones, but proving to be real gems—sapphires j and emeralds —mixed with yellow | amber and topaz. i A vanity case for powder and lipj salve had a ribbon band in sapphires ! and diamonds. Two rings displayed the same stones, one representing two j hearts entwined, and one a single j large diamond. FURS | On the chairs beside this case rested the two lovely fur coats which the duke had lavished on his bride. One is of mink, and the other is of ermine, full length, with full wide sleeves and a deep pouf collar of silver fox. |

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