PRINCE WEDS NURSE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1921, Page 9

PRINCE WEDS NURSE.

ROMANCE OF AN ITALIAN NOBLE

and English girl.

The wadding of Prince Filippo Andrea Doria-Pamphili, heir of the ancient Roman house of Doria-Pamphili, and Miss Gesina Mary Dykes, an English nurse, took place at the Oratory, Brompton Road, S.W. Only six people were in the church, including the officiating priest, Father J. E. Woodruff, and the registrar.

The bride wore a. charming dress of cream charmeuse, and the bridegroom, a tall, military-looking man, wore a blue /lounge suit. The is a beautiful woman of 35. It was during thd war that their love romance started, for the prince was tended by his future bride while he was in a convalescent hospital recovering from wounds in Italy. The news of the marriage has been received austerely in Rome, says the Rome correspondent of The Daily Mail. The Doria-Pamphili family objected to the match.

Nurse Dykes had been a devoted mother, sister, and friend to the ailing prince. She never left his bedside during his long illness, as he could bear no strange faces near him when in pain. He would refuse to take any medicine except from her hands. No one but she could lace the steel corset he had to wear—in fact, Jie depended, on her for everything. The prince resents so much the attitude of his family that he has put. everything in the palace under lock and key.

The gorgeous Villa Doria-Pamphili. situated on one of the seven hills of Rome, is the spot where the prince and his wife will pass most of their time. No fairer place could be imagined. Slim and majestic umbrella pines, gnarled old oaks, the tropical palm tree, and the mountain cedar froin a former forest where wander herds of deer.

Shady paths and avenues lead to a fairy lake covered with water lilies, with a tiny island in its centre. The v’’>a dates hack to IGSO. when Pope Innocent X, presented it to his sister-in-law.

In this ideal spot the descendant of warriors who fought in the Crusades is going to live a secluded life, determined to sec no one but a few intimate friends who love and understand him.