Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from being the subject of a lawsuit during the actual ceremony, did manage while the wedding breakfast was being eaten to hush Schiaparelli for a fewr days by "reserving judgment." Death claimed the bride's father few weeks ago, transformed the nuptials from a national pageant at Westminster Abbey into a "delightful private affair'' in the chapel of Buckingham Palace. H. R. H. slipped a ring of Welsh gold over Lady Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with...
...Motor rose above the twitter and gush of London society paragraphists. Going to press too early to catch the death of Lady Alice's father which makes it necessary to transform her marriage this week to George V's third son from a public function at Westminster Abbey into a quiet, private affair. The Motor took a knowing Rolls-Royce-eye-view of the royal nuptials thus...
...Crown prosecutor, Stuart has been playing with dolls, dressing and talking like a child of 11, systematically perpetrating one of the most successful frauds ever practiced upon Royalty-loving Britons. Still indomitable in her pretense last week, Alexandra Maud Edwarda Caernarvon Stuart insisted: "My parents were married in Westminster Abbey. I am a direct descendant of Mary Queen of Scots...
...venerable uncle, the Duke of Connaught. Third and only surviving son of Queen Victoria, Arthur William Patrick Albert Windsor is the one member of the Royal Family today who dislikes publicity. Last week, habited in a sweeping mantle of ancient cut, he entered the gloom of Westminster Abbey preceded by the official known as King of Arms...
...knocks?" cried the Abbey Surveyor from within...