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First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on April 27 & 28, 1923
ROYAL WEDDING.
Ceremony in the Abbey.
A BRILLIANT SPECTACLE.
POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS.
(April 27)
For the second time within fourteen months Westminster Abbey has been the scene of a Royal wedding – that of the Duke of York and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.
Three thousand guests attended the ceremony. It was a brilliant spectacle. Outside the abbey the scene was one of animation and enthusiasm.
Along the route between the abbey and Buckingham Palace were vast crowds of sight-seers, many of whom, in spite of heavy rain, waited throughout the night to secure coigns of vantage.
GORGEOUS PAGEANT.
LONDON, April 26.
(April 28)
During the past weeks the Duke of York and his Scottish bride have become increasingly popular, and the selection of a bride from his own land won the entire approval of the people. In most respects the wedding ceremonial closely followed that of Princess Mary’s. The route was lined by the first battalions respectively of the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards, the Scots Guards, and the Welsh Guards, while the bands of the various guards regiments were stationed at points along the route.
Queen Alexandra preceded the King and Queen to the Abbey by a few minutes, while the Duke of York, who was accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry, left the Palace shortly after his parents. The bride, accompanied by her father, left her home at Bruton Place, just after 11 o’clock.
The departure from the palace of the Duke of York and his groomsmen was the signal for great cheering. But perhaps the greatest ovation was that accorded the bride, as, with her father, she passed Hyde Park corner.
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