The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-23
JEAN REID WEDS
Daughter Of the American Am.
bassador to England
Marries q Member of the ROyaI
Household.
BROTHER OF AN EARL.
The Wedding Was Attended by
the Royal Family.
Ceremony Performed in Roya
Chapel of st. James Palace.

London, June 23-With King Edward
and Queen Alexandra smiling approval
from their private gallery, Jean Reid
daughter of Whitelaw Reid, the Amer
lean ambassador to England, was mar
ried this afternoon in the chapel royal
OF st. James palace to the Hon. John
Hubert Ward, brother of the Earl of
Dudley and equerry-in-waiting to the
king. The ancient chapel, one of the
few remains of the old palace of the
Tudors, in which Queen Victoria and
several of her. daughters were mar
ried, was prettily decorated with flow
ers for this, the most fashionable of
recent weddings in London.
A great crowd assembled in ST.
James square to watch the arrival of
the bridal party and the king and
queen and other members of the royal
family, who by their attendance at the
chapel and the subsequent reception at
Dorchester house, the city residence
of Ambassador Reid, paid compliment
to the American ambassador and his
daughter, seldom accorded even to
members of the English nobility.
The invitations, which were limited
to less than 100 on account of the
smallness of the church, set the time
hour all the guests had found their
seats. While the guests were as
sembling DR.. Alcock, the composer and
Organist of the Chapel Royal, played a
fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach, the
nuptial march by Alexander Guilmant,
the ant'acte and bridal march from
THE Birds of Aristophanes" by Sir H.
H. Parry, an andantino by Guilmant
and the prelude to Act III of ''Lohen-
grim
King and Queen Arrive.
few minutes before o'clock King
Edward and Queen Alexandra accom-
panied by their suite drove up from
buckingham palace and proceeded at
once to the royal gallery where the
Prince and Princess of Wales. the Duke
and Duchess of Connaught and Prin-
cess Patricia already had arrived.
AS is customary in the Church of
England service the officiating clergy,
accompanied by surpliced choir, met
the bridal procession at the door and
preceded 1t up the chapel, the choir
singing Lead Us. Heavenly Father,
Lead U.s.
St. Georges chapel, Windsor, where
the king and queen attend services
when. in residence at Windsor castle,
officiated. He was assisted by the Rev.
William Grosvenor, rector of the
church of the Incarnation, New York,
a church of which Mr.. and Mrs. Reid
have been members for many years
and the Rev. Claughton. rector of Hut
ton-Brentwood, cousin of the bride
groom.
The brides dress was of soft white
satin trimmed with old rose point lace
given her by her grandmother. The
veil too, had a lace center and edging
and was held by wreath of orange
blossoms.
The bride wore but three pieces of
jewelry and those were all old-fashion-
ed clasp bracelets. the wedding pres
ents of King Edward, Queen Alexan-
dra and Mr. Ward and looked charming
ly beautiful as she walked up the aisle
of the historical old chapel on the arm
of her father.
Only One Bridesmaid.
Miss Jennie Crocker of San Fran
cisco, attended her cousin and on ac-
count of the smallness of the chapel
which even with all the precautions ta-
ken, was rather overcrowded, was the
only bridesmaid. She wore a dainty
costume of white embroidered muslin,
with blue sash and a large picture hat
trimmed with flowers. There were also
in attendance five little children, two
boys and three girls, all in quaint cos
tunes of blue and white, taken from