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ROYAL WEDDING

SOUVENIR

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1934

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CITY IN WORLD

GRAND SCALE ENTERTAINMENTS

WEDDING GOWN

HEIRLOOM VEIL

COURT TRAIN 12 FEET

IN LENGTH

The choice of the Princess has fallen upon a heavy silver lame with a brocaded rose in the de- sign-in English rose, a point

LONDON during this Royal Wedding Week is the gayest city which appeals greatly to the` Im-

the

Visitors from the provinces and the Continent have found a city

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full of brilliant decorations, flood-IIt buildings, and entertain- ment on a grand scale. Hotels, restaurants, theatres, cinemas, shops, railways, travel agencies, and local authorities have combined to provide a

week of endless variety.

The age-old splendour of religious ceremonial to-day will be su- perbly blended with the pomp of State, the magnificence of Royal houses, and the devotion of the nation's representatives.

Princess Marina will have eight romantic in the history of Eng- bridesmaids. They will be: land, will be an event to stir Princess Juliana of the Nether-Jevery heart.

lands, daughter of Queen From every part of Great Wilhelmina. She is 25. Britain women have flocked to "Princess Irene of Greece, sister of London. hopeful of catching a King George of Greece, glimpse of the royal lovers- jeager to see in the pageantry of the bridal procession from Buck- ingham Palace a materialisation. f 'the wonderful happenings in The story-books of childhood.

THE GRAND DUCHESS KIRA OF RUSSIA

daughter of King Constan- tine, and cousin of Princess Marina. She is 80.

Princess Catherine of Greece, youngest sister of Princess Irene. Aged 21.

The Grand Duchess Kyra.....ot

Russia, daughter of Grand

Duke Cyne of Russia, who

proclaimed himself head of

What splendour will unfold petween the Palace and the Abbey!

VISITORS POUR IN

RITES

High Clergy At Abbey

WEDDINGS

POST-WAR REVIVAL

ONLY THREE TAKE PLACE

SINCE 1382.

Westminster Abbey, after many hundreds of years, has been

EUROPE'S ROYALTY

EVENTS IN THE LIVES OF ROYAL COUPLE

FULL PROGRAMME chosen for the celebration of Ro PRINCE'S WORK ON SEA AND LAND

yal weddings only since the end

In the Sacrarium will be the of the war. Archbishops of Canterbury and) York, the Bishop of London, and i | Archbishop Germanos, the Greek |Orthodox prelate who has the oversight of Princess Marina's! co-religionists in England.

At the great West Door, the Dean (Dr. Foxley Norris), the Canons of Westminster, and other function- aries of the Abbey will await the bride..

The procession up the church and past the tomb of the Unknown War- rlor will be led by the famous) Abyssinian cross of the Abbey. All the cleries will be vested in magni- frent copes, and the Abbey clergy, will be habited also in the scarlet cassocks proper to members of the Royal foundation.

The familiar exhortation of the marriage service will be read by the

Prince George Dean, probably in the shortened

agination of the bride.

The silver gown is very Of foreign royalty there will simplu, for Princess Marina's love he nearly 20 representatives. of simplicity in dress is well They will include the

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the House of Romanoff in PRINCESS JULIANA

1922. She is 25.

NETHERLANDS

is eight years old,

Princess Elizabeth of York. She

Princess Eugenie of Greece,

OF THE

known.

It will be cut upon princess9

form used at the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of York:

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THE WEDDING CAKE

Only Empire products have been lines, with the long, straight and used for the wedding cake It is rather high-bodiced lines of the nine feet high and weight 200 lb

Middle Ages. The flowing sleeves

will be turned-back with broad cuffs of perfectly plain silver | lame, and from her shoulders will fall a Court train 12 ft. long, lined likewise with. plain silver.

The veil will be one of old family lace-a vell which Princess Nicolas and Princess Marina's eldést sister wore for their wed- dings. It will be supported by many, yards of diaphanous white tafie," which will fall in plain folds from the diamond tiara down

over her shouders, and cover the greater part of the immense silver train.

Princess Marina will wear dainty- shoes of the same silver lame used for the dress, and she will carry a sheaf of white madonna lilies.

The Royal couple may visit South Australia for the centenary celebra- tions in 1980.

daughter of Prince George of Two Religious Ceremonies

Greece, Princess Marina's

Princess Marina, from the painting by Philip de 'Laszlo, will celebrate her 28th, birthday on her honey- moon in Warwickshire. to-morrow.

Princess Marina

PRINCE George's marriage will further untie the British Royal family with a family which is related to nearly all the Royal- ties of Europe.

Princess Marina's grandfather, King George of Greece, was the brother of Queen Alexandra. Her grandmother was the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia,

Her aunt, the wife of King-Constantine' was the ex-Kaiser's sister

and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Through her sister she is related to the Royal family, of Yugo-

slavia, and through her cousin to King Carol of Rumania.

Princess Marina was born atjalno gave to the Allies far greater Athens on November 30, 1908. It help and far better advice than was not a very fortunate year for they received from M. Venizelos. the family. Her mother was very ill, and for some time her life was in danger.

In that year, too, her uncle, King Constantine, visited Berlin and was presented by the ex-Kaiser with a marshal's baton. This ceremony was never forgotten by the French, and was partly responsible for the Allied misunderstanding of King Constantine's attitude during the When the Princess Royal was Great War. married there in February, 1922. In this connection Prince Nicolas, it was the first occasion on which Princess Marina's father, is the a child of a sovereign had gone staunchest defender of his dead to the Abbey for her wedding ce brother's memory. He maintains emony for 640 years. The bride that King Constantine was not only of the year 1252 was Aveline de loyal to Greek interest, but that he Fortibus, and she died four years afterwards. Her tomb is in the. Sanctuary:

Fourteen months after the Princess Royal, the Duke of York was married at Westminster Ab bey, But it was Princess Patri cia, the Duke of Connaught's daughter (who is now known as Lady Patricia Ramsay), who broke the spell of the yeara, for her wedding at the Abbey was in Fe- bruary, 1919,

Only, three Royal weddings, there fore; have taken place at Westminster Abbey, (all of them within the last fifteen years) ainco" Richard ET, in the year 1882 married Anne of Bohemia.

Both. Queen Victoria and King George were married in the

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At the Newbury jumping fixture the programme for to-day will contain the "Prince George's Handicap Steeple-

THE PRINCE'S CARÉER Prince George Edward Alexarider Edmund is the fourth and youngest surviving son of the King and

PRINCESS IRENE OF GREECE

Queen. He was born on December 20; 1902.

The King wished his son to carry. on the family tradition of a "Salior Prince," and, accordingly, Prince George entered the Royal Naval Training College at Dartmouth, a few months before his fourteenth birthday in 1916

Passed out as midshipman in 1924 be spent eight years as a serving, officer, seeing service with the. Medi- terranean Fleet, the Atlantic Fleet,

chase" and the "Princess Marina Han- PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK the China Squadron, and on the dicap Hurdle Race."

American and West Indies Station. Ill-health. compelled him to relin- quish a naval career, and on March

participation in the work of the

The Prince Buys The Ring 18, 1929, his retirement from sctive

The fact that there are to be two re-the official witnessing of it by a miniv uncle, and cousin of Kingligious ceremonies, the one according to ter of the Church.

£25,000 ANNUITY

Princess Marina's engagement ring accustomed platinum signet ring, and George of Greece, aged 24. the Anglican rite and the other accord- As to this ench part of the Church

Prince George, as one of the with a "baton" diamond-an-oblong, he had given this ring to Princess communication issued from Buc Lady Iris Mountbatten, daughtering

was a square-cut Kashmir sapphire there was some speculation whether Navy was announced in an official the rite of the Greek Church, has its own laws and canons, and until King's children, receives an annual square cut diamond-on either side, all Marina as a first pledge of their be-kingham Palace. of the Marquis and Marchio-does not in, the least imply that each formal inter-communion is definitely grant under the Civil Last. With mounted in platinum.

Church refuses to recognise the vali-concluded between the Church of Eng

We trothal ness of Carisbrooke and adity of the Sacramenta administered by land and the Eastern Orthodox Chur- the exception of the Prince of

With experts of the firm the Prince "Prince George has displayed the most that the King, with the concurrence At the same time it was stated. great-granddaughter of the other. Queen Victoria. She is 14.

ches it is necessary that the rules of Wales, the son of the King were three-quarters of an hour, exam modern taste in his choice both of the There is no question of the adminis each should be respected in the case of granted by Act of Parliament in attention was mostly concentrated on will undoubtedly make sapphires the that the Prince should be attached faing rings and uncut stones. -Hia ring and of the setting. His selection of the Prime Minister, had decided Lady Mary Cambridge, daughter tration of sacrament involved in the a "mixed marriage."

of the Marquis of Cambridge silke teach that the Sacrament

matter at all. All Christian bodies]

1910 annuities of £10,000 per the sapphires which, according to one most popular ring for engagements this to the Foreign Office, in order to How completely the two branches of and a niece of the Queen. Holy Matrimony is administered by the case are in accord is vividly demons to be increased by a further $15,000 Eventually, after much consideration. many years, and the Kashmir sapphire, tion and work of a department of

of the Church concerned in the present annum each on attaining majority, in close touch with the Prince, are the year.

favourite stones of Princess Marina Sapphires have been fashionable for gain knowledge of the administra- She is 10

parties themselves and recognise the trated by the fact that the Greek each on marriage, EVENT TO, STIR ALL HEARTS

validity of the marriage of all baptised Church authorities were quite content

he picked a big, unmounted sapphire of the finest and most distinctive, is be-State The royal marriage, in the persons to whatever denomination ther to leave their interests in the friendly George's brothers is married, the his fiancee's finger before he left Parla. Biclal: light, the Kashmir, or blue The Duke of York alone of Prince a brilliant deep translucent blue.. coming extremely rare. While other edifice which is the shrine of so

may belong:

hands of the Archbishop of Canter- Pence of Wales, and the Duke of Whance's rised at Croydon, it was sapphire, always relaim its original family.

He had taken the measurement of sapphired change their colours in arti

Thus Prince George became the much that is transcendentally "solemnisation" of the marriage and in the settlements.

The service in church is simply the bury, who acted for both demoninations!

Arst Civil Servant in the Royal Gloucester being bachelors.

anticed that, he was not wearing his colour,

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