The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-19
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MAIDS To TAKE
MARY To ALTAR
Princess Maud, First Cousin,
Chosen as Chief
Bridesmaid.
ALL ARE GOLDEN HAIRED
Five of Personal Friends Out
side of Kinship, to Be
Attendants.
BY +. A. WRAY,
international News Service,

LONDON, FeD. lo.-only Eng
lish-born maidens will follow Prin-
ces Mary to the altar when she
marries Lord Lascelles on Feb
ruary %. Three cousins and five
Of her personal friends have been
chosen.
Princess Maud, her first cousin,
and daughter of the Princess Royal
and sister of Princess Arthur of
Connaught, will be the chief brides
maid.> She is very shy and little
known to the general public. A
rather plump girl, with masses of
curly hair, Princess Maud will be
acting as royal bridesmaid for the
second time. The previous occasion
was the wedding of Princess Pa
tricia, daughter of the Duke OF
Connaught.
Lady Cambridge Pretty.
Lady Victoria May Cambridge Is
another first cousin of Princess
Mary, being the daughter Of Queen
Mary's eldest brother. She Is
very pretty girl, with a roseleaf
complexion and fair, golden hair.
Her younger sister also married
outside the royal family, her hus-
band being Major Gibbs.
Lady May Cambridge is the
school girl daughter of Princess
Alice and the Earl of Athlone. She
also is very fair, with beautiful
coloring. She is extremely self
possessed and has acquired out-and-
out democratic sympathies at her
boarding school.
One Bridesmaid Is Ia.
Lady Diana Bridgeman is an
other very young bridesmaid, being
in her fourteenth year. She is
the eldest daughter Of the Earl
and Countess of Bradford and
therefore a cousin of Lord Las
celles. About eighteen months ago
there was published a book OF
verses, written by her when still
in the nursery, which were con-
sidered to be of extraordinary
promises. Since then she has writ
ten several other volumes.
Lady Rachel Cavendish was al
ways regarded as certain to be one
of the chosen. She is one of the
five daughters of the Duke OF
Devonshire, and popular expectation
docks to the early announcement
of her engagement to the Prince
Of Wales.
Her mother has always been the
closest and most valued friend OF
Queen Mary, and II was at Chats
nf
the Duke, that the acquaintance of
the Princess and Lord Lascelles
ripened into an engagement. Lady
Rachel is also a typically fair Eng
lish girl and is a great sports
woman and keen dancer into the
bargain.
Lady Doris Gordon Lennox, who
has also been discussed as a posi-
sible bride for the Prince of Wales.
is the daughter Of the Earl Of
March and one Of Princess Mary's
closest personal friends. She Is
Just twenty-five years Of age and
prefers to live her life in the coun-
try rather than in London.
Was Prettiest Debutante.
Lady Mary Thyme was regarded
as last years pretuest debutante.
She is a daughter of the Earl of
Bath and a girl Of keen individual
ity as we'll as being an ardent stu
dent. She also is in Princess
Mary's complete confidence.
Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon,
daughter OF the Earl and Countess
bf Strathmore, is probably the
bridesmaid most likely to make her
mark on English society in the
next few years. She is a very vi
vacious, enterprising girl who does
all the entertaining for her moth
er. Last fall she suddenly made
up a party of young people and
motored them a hundred miles
over Scotch moors in order to see
"Charlie Chaplin in THE Kid"
She and Lady Diana Bridgeman
are the only two dark bridesmaids
chosen.