Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-27
London Is on Iiptoes
and All logged Out
for Wedding of Mary

with gay flags and bunting, the capita
streets are thronged with visitors, every
where there is feverish popular activity
unprecedented since the coronation OF
King George.
The city is preparing to do honor tc
Princess Mary, who tomorrow, in the his
toric abbey, will become the bride OF
| ViscOunt Lascelles.
Everything is in readiness for the cere-
'mOny which has drawn thousands OF
visitors from every corner Of England
and from the continent to say nothing
of hundreds of Americans who are eager
Iy seeking places of vantage along the
wedding route at $50 a seat. Only two
American citizens, Ambassador and Mrs
George W. Harvey, will witness the ac-
tual ceremony.
The sceduIe for the royal wedding has
been arranged and will be observed
punctiliously, even to the exact minute al
which royal relatives of the bride shall
leave their palaces for the abbey. The
bridal procession with Princess Mary on
the arm of her father, King George, will
move down the aisle of the abbey to the
magnificent altar where Vincount Las
celles will be waiting. Sixteen clergymen
will be there to assist at the ceremony.
Their number has been reinforced by the
addition of the Rev. Maurice Lascelles,
cousin of the Viscount.
LONDON TO BE
GAILY ILLUMINATED.
Besides it's riot of gay colors by day,
London will be illuminated with brilliant
electric decorations by night for an en-
fire week in honor of it's Princess and her
husband. Popular enthusiasm approving
the Princess choice of an Englishman is
lust beginning to reach Its height.
All the leading hotels have planned
banuuets for tomorrow night anu
Wednesday in which many OF the Amer
lean visitors to the capital will par
ticipate These latter are arriving In
increasing numbers with each steamer.
Seats in hastily erected stands along
Piccadilly, past which the Princess ana
her husband will drive after the
ceremony, are being snapped up at from
S25 to $50. By night, the profteers Will
be in their glory. This route Will be
taken only by the bride and groom, the
other guests using the direct routes back
from Westminster to the palace.
The time table for the wedding, which
has just been issued, provides for the
stopping of all traffic along the route
of the wedding procession at 9:45 a. m.
The last of the guests to arrive at the
seats by 80 a. m.
The more distant royal relatives Of the
Princess will reach the abbey at IL :0S,
while Queen Alexandra and Princess
Victoria and their suite will arrive at
II 10. They will wait Queen Mary at
the door of the abbey.
THREE CARRIAGES
ON ROYAL TRAIN.
The Queen, accompanied by the Duke
Of York and Princes Henry and George,
are to leave Buckingham Palace in three
carriages with a cavalry escort, at IL :O3,
arriving at the Abbey at IL 10. A pro-
cession of all the royal guests then
will be formed and high officials will
escort them to their seats.
Lord Lascelles will arrive at II 10
and wait in the poets corner" near the
side door.
King George V and the bride will
leave the palace at at II 16 arriving at the
abbey door at II 2S. If the weather
permits the King and the Princess will
drive in an open state carriage. II not
they will use one of the magnificent
closed affairs that will be drawn by six
black horses.
The wedding procession inside the alb
hey, with the bridesmaids formed, will
move forward to the altar to the music
of the sixty seond Psalm and the an
them Let Us Love One Another"
During the singing of the register, the
bridal march from Romeo and Juliet
will be played. While the couple is de-
parting the strains of Mendelsohn's i'm
mortal wedding march will swell through
the abbey.
BRIDAL COUPLE TO
DEPART AT NOON.
Viscount Lascelles and his bride, Her
Royal Highness, Princess Mary Vlscount-
ess LasceIles, as she then will be known
are expected, to depart from the abbey al
II o'clock. They will drive down White
hall 70 the Admiralty Arch and turn
down the Mall, which will be lined with
thousands Of ceering Londoners and
visitors toward the palace At st. James
street, however, the carriage containing
the bridal couple will turn off sharply
to the right and traverse PicadilIy to
Hyde Park corner and Constitution Hill
before reaching the palace. 1t was as yet
uncertain whether the King and Queen
will be there to greet them, although
their majesties will go directly to Buck
| ingham Palace.
The wedding breakfast, confined to 10c
guests, including the families and init
mate acQuaintances Of the bride and
groom, will be held at half-past twelve.
The honeymoon itself will start at 80
o'clock. Viscount LasceIles and his royal
| bride will take train from Paddington
Station, and leave London together, alone
for the first time in their lives. They will
be accompanied by ladies and gentlemen
in waiting.
As an evidence of the tremendous de-
mand for tickets to the abbey to witness
the wedding, it was learned many Of the
highest nobility have been unable to OBJ
tain admission. Apart from those peers
holding court posts, only sixty -four peers
and peeresses have been invited as such
with a similar number members of the
House Of Commons and their wives. A
careful selection has been made to have
representatives of each of the various
grades Of nobility and commOners within
the parliamentary groups
One hundred journalists, two photog-
raphers and one artist will represent the
world press. Frank o. Salisbury. a IA
nous British artist, already has begun
work on an immense canvas, by royal
command.
The only foreign royalties who will be
present at the abbey during the wedding