The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-26
ALL ENGLAND WILL BLESS UNION OF
 BETTY AND BERT|E
Million Expected To See Wed- ding Procession In London
 Today

LONDON, April 25.-Albert Fred erick Arthur George, otherwise known as the Duke of Yor.., will ride to matrimony in glass hack while his bride, Lady Elizabeth Bowes- Lyon, will jog along in an ordinary carriage.
 This, the latest of the details of the ceremony, wEich is to unite the second son of their majesties, kisg George and Queen Mary, to the younger daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was revealed on the eve of the nuptials. The two will be married in the Westminster Abbey Thursday noon.
 The Prince of Wales, the best man for his brother, will accompany York from Buckingham palace to the Ab
 bey The Earl of Strathmore will sit beside his daughter when their coach leaves the Mayfair mansion of the Strathmores for the historic church.
 Two other glass hacks are to be
 used in the wedding procession,
 which, according to the weather man.
 will be in d cold drizzling rain.
 King Tn Procession.
 King George and Queen Mary will
 ride in one of them and Queen Mother
 Alexander in the other.
 The Duke of York will blossom out
 with a brand new ribbon at the ferred on him the title of knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble order of the Thistle Wednesday night
 while his majesty made the Earl of Strathmore a knight of the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian order.
 It is estimated that quarter of million persons will occupy seats o1n ba of cession Thursday and that more | than million of his majesty's sub 1 jects, happy in the thought that the Duke of York is marrying an En- l glish girl rather than one of foreign | birth. will witness the pageant | standing along the way. leaning from
 windows or peering down from the
 house tops.
 Expect Immense Throng. The cold drizzle, which dampened
 the spirit of the crowds Wednesday,
 is expected to make little difference 1 in the size of the throng which turns out to see the Duke and Lady Eliza
 beth went their way to Westminster ! Abbey
 | As the eager commoners are shiv-
 ering on the outside, 1000 members | of royalty, nobility, officials and a 1 few of the most humble commoners | Strathmore,, will assemble in the ab- | bey.
 /, Lady Elizabeth, accompanied by her l father. is to leave the Strathmore | family mansion shortly before 1l;S0
 a. m. and they will be driven slowly l to the abbey.
 The Duke of York and the Prince of | Wales are to leave Buckingham pal ace about the same time and escorted l to the abbey by the red-trousered | Eleventh Hussars, of which the duke 1 is colonel.
 | Other guests, In order of their | rank. will arrive at the exact time l that has been chosen for them by the | master of ceremonies of the palace. Lesser members of royalty will wait 1 outside Westminster until after the
 arrival of King George and Queen Mary. who are to be escorted from ] the palace by the Royal Life Guards.
 Uses old Dress Models. Awaiting inside the abbey for the 1 duke, Lady Elizabeth. their majecties
 and the guests are to be the Arch
 bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of
 London and the Dean of Westminster, | with many other clergymen. At q l given signal the procession will start
 solemnly up the aisle.
 Lady Elizabeth, when she floats l down the aisle, may look to the guests as though she had stepped out l of the frame of an old master. It is l understood that ancestral portraits in | possession of the Strathmore family furnished the inspiration of her wed- 1 ding gown.
 The noble lady will look radiant in | a gown of parchment-colored moire
 mousseline and silver tissue. Beauti-
 full old lace, present of Queen Mary, | is used in the bridal veil and train | l.. |. T l. | of commander in his majesty's naval | forces, the Prince of Wales appear | ing as naval captain and King | George as an admiral. a.
 Will Promise To Obey. The eight bridesmaids of Lady
 Betty are girls whom she has known 1 for years. Lady Mary Cambridge and Lady May Cambridge are rela-
 tives of the royal family. The others
 are: Lady Katherine Hamilton. Lady
 Mary Thunne, the Honorable Eliz-
 abeth Elphinstone, the Honorable
 Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, the Honorable l Diamond Hardinge, and Miss Betty i Gator, the daughter of a Commoner with whom Lady Elizabeth went to
 school.
 The ceremony will be the simple l one of the Church of England in
 which Lady Elizabeth will promise to i love. honor and obey" her royal | husband and in which the Duke will ! take Betty for better or worse" Only the members of the imme- l date families of Windsor and Strath- more are invited to the wedding | breakfast.
 | After this brilliant event, ser | wants, nobles and royalty, led by
 Prince George. will pelt the pair | with rice, confetti and flowers as
 they leave to spend their honeymoon | is Surrey and Scotland. Lady Elizabeth is the younger
 daughter of the Earl and Countess