The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
SOCIETY IN LONDON
BY LADY MAR Y mANwARrre

London, March 30--fSpeoial)-T im- portant post Easter event for London society will be the wedding of the Mar ouis of Stafford, son and heir of the Duke of Sutherland and Lady Eileen Butler daughter of the Earl of Laneshorough which is to be celebrated at St. Peters Church Eaton Square April Il.
 Peculiar interest attaches to their mar riage by reason of the fact the Lord Stafford was reported to be deeply in fatuated with Princess Pretiva of Cooch Behar and it was current talk that it took all sorts pressure and diplomacy to prevent the introduction into the British peerage dusky skinned Duchess.
 Lady Eileen, who will be given away by her father, is to wear a lovely gown of white satin, and will be attended by no fewer than fourteen bridesmaids, who are to wear dresses of varying shades of pink. These young ladies include Lady Betty Butler, a sister of the bride; Lady Rosemary Loveson Gower sister of the bridegroom Lady Mary Dawson, younger daughter of the Earl and Count ess of Dartrey; Lady Enid Fane. daughter of the Earl of Carnarvon: Miss I.avinia Bingham, daughter of General Cecil Bing- ham: Miss Kitty Phyllis Combe, daughter of Captain and Lady Jane Combe: Miss Hilda Butler, daughter of the Hon. Fran cis Butler; Miss Jean Stewart, daughter of Capt. Stewart, cousin of the bride and the Misses Combe. After the ceremony the Countess of Lanesborough will hold q, reception at Grosvepor house, which has been lent for the occasion by the duke and duchess of Westminster.
 Lady Dorothy Walpole has gone to Italy, where she intends travelling for several weeks, returing to London for the season about the beginning of May. She is three and twenty next month, and clever and accomplished, with both Lord Oxforfi's and her late mothers devotion to travel Lady Dorothy is a great heir ess for Lady Oxford was very wealthy, being the daughter of the millionaire railway magnate, MT. Corbin, of New York Since the death of her mother a generous and hospitable woman who de- lighted to entertain friends In Burton street and at Wolteston, the principal Oxford seat In Norfolk, Lady Dorothy walpole has not gone much into society, and she and her father have travelled a good deal.
 The waIpoles have some notable for hears Perhaps one of the most inter-
 
 esting of them is that fascinating ac- tress, Nance Oldfeld, one of whose daughters by General Churchill a nephew or granddaughter of the great Duke or Marlborough, was the wife of the second Earl of Oxford of the second creation Nance OldfIeld, beautiful woman, as her portrait by Richardson shows had a curious career for though an actress who had alliances" not strictly in order, she was received at court and buried in Westminster Abbey. Her first alliance was with Arthur Mainwaring. They took up their abode together without the for malitv of a wedding ceremony, but neith- CT suffered any loss of public esteem, and Nance consorted with the best Of them at Windsor in the sunshine of royalty
 Mainwaring died, and then General Churchill and Nance formed an alliance Once the Princess of Wales. afterwards Queen Caroline asked Nance whether thev were married. "It was rumoured so,' was the reply, ''but we have not owned 1t yet" They had a son Charles,