The Final Curtsey by Margaret Rhodes

Author:Margaret Rhodes [Margaret, Rhodes]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780857901910
Publisher: Birlinn

Our wedding

Wedding day: Among this group are the King and Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret, my parents and my mother-in-law

The annulment hearing had been before an ecclesiastical court and the whole thing had been a great strain for everyone concerned. But at last it was over and Denys was a free man whose first marriage did not count in the eyes of the law. It meant that we could go ahead and make wedding plans. I suppose, in my parents’ view, he was not the most suitable bridegroom. For instance, he did not have any inheritance to look forward to but they could see how much I loved him. On 31 July 1950 we were married in St Margaret’s, Westminster, with a reception afterwards in Londonderry House, the London residence of the Marquess of Londonderry, who was a distant relative of Denys on his mother’s side. Princess Margaret was one of the bridesmaids, but Princess Elizabeth was absent as she was due to give birth to her second child, Princess Anne. She wrote to me on my wedding morning saying how much she was thinking of me. ‘You must be so thankful,’ she said, ‘that the great day has arrived at last and I am sure it will be a very happy one for you. I can’t really wish you any greater happiness than I have found myself in being married, and I hope that after all the troubles and difficulties your joy with Denys will be extra specially wonderful.’

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