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Engaged. Lady Margaret, 24, second daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry, Secretary for Air, and the Marchioness of Londonderry, No. 1 political hostess of the British Empire (TIME, Nov. 12); and her flying instructor. Alan Muntz, 35, a director of Heston Airport; without her father's approval...
With no faintest hint of scandal, the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry are now said to have "seduced" Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. It is they who enticed the silver-haired Scot out of dingy surroundings in which he moved even three years ago, launched him in Mayfair's glittering swim...
...generation after generation statesmen and monarchs have mounted the grand curving stair of Londonderry House to pompous festivities in the historic rooms above. The present 7th Marquess of Londonderry is also Viscount Castlereagh. Prominently in Londonderry House hangs a portrait of his ancestor of whom Thomas Moore riddled venomously...
Died. John Charles de la Poer Beresford, seventh Marquess of Waterford, 33; accidentally (shotgun); in Portlaw, County Waterford, Irish Free State. Legend held that a curse of violent deaths had been put on seven generations of his family; the third Marquess died of a fall in the hunting field; the fifth shot himself; the sixth drowned...
...with King George at Balmoral Castle in Scotland last week, Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, third wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, acted as godmother-by-proxy for Her Majesty at the baptism in London of the infant son and heir of the Marquess of Hamilton...