Other Noble and Royal Weddings; pre-1945


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It's a good job this very young couple didn't know what was ahead of them when they married on a very damp January day. They had two children, a boy and a girl. The girl, Charmian, died aged four in 1937. Joan, the bride in the clip above, died aged 30, a year later. The groom died of his wounds while on active service in France in 1940, during the Dunkirk debacle. He was 32. (His brother Desmond was killed in WW2 as well.) Only the couple's son survived and inherited his grandfather's peerage. In 1942 he became Viscount Boyne at the age of 11.
 
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Two 'great Scottish Houses' might have united' as the title card says, but not for long, I'm afraid. The bride was cousin to Elizabeth, then Duchess of York. The groom was in the Air Force. They had four children, two boys, two girls, but divorced in 1952. Lord Malcolm married again very quickly afterwards. Pamela waited until 1964 before remarrying. Lord Malcolm had a distinguished flying career during the Second World War, but was killed in a plane crash in 1964, along with his younger son with Pamela, Niall, aged 21.
 
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Robert William Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn RN was married at St. Margaret's Church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSRcMlb1So

On December 12, 1932 Diana Churchill wed John Bailey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeDMHF9ybJA

In 1931 Lady Jean Dalrymple, the daughter of John Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair, married Lt-Colonel Niall Rankin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGl2d5va038

Christopher Finch-Hatton became the 15th Earl of Winchelsea in 1939.
He was Viscount Maidstone on July 10, 1935 when he married Countess Gladys Széchényi. Gladys was the daughter of Count Laszlo Széchényi and Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Széchényi.
 
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Some pretty bridesmaids wearing low on forehead things again!
Diana was an actress. This marriage featured above lasted only three years before the couple divorced. Then Diana wed Duncan Sandys, a Conservative politician, and had three children but that marriage ended in divorce too. There were several nervous breakdowns and suicide attempts in Diana's life and she became involved in suicide prevention groups and organisations. She herself took an overdose of sleeping pills in 1963 and unfortunately died.
 
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Extraordinary how many British cinemas still weren't fitted for sound in 1931.

This is an interesting article on Lady Jean, a personal friend of the Queen Mother into old age, and a Woman of the Bedchamber for over forty years. Lady Jean was also a go-between during the Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend romance and its aftermath. I loved the story of how the groom met his father for the first time and was left his fortune because his father was so charmed by his fiancée!

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/22/world/lady-jean-rankin-96-dies-waited-on-queen-mother.html?_r=0
 
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Married in January, and the bridesmaids in short-sleeved coloured chiffon! Brrrh! Anyway this marriage didn't last very long, they were very young, at 21 and 19. They had one daughter, who was also a multiple wedder! The bride was Australian. She married again and had another daughter. Her second husband was killed in 1944, during the war. The Earl married three times altogether. His second wife was an ex of Cary Grant's, the actress,Virginia Cherrill. No children. He had sons with his third wife, with whom he was apparently happy.
 
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Martin was the son of the 5th marques of Exeter and succeeded is older brother in the 80s. His son with Edith. Michael, is the current. Martin later would marry a woman named Lilian with whom he had 2 daughters. His elder brother was an olympic medalist in track and one of his daughters was a long time friend and lady in waiting to the queen mum.
 
James Graham (1907-1992) was at the time the eldest son and heir of the Duke of Montrose (and thus held the courtesy title of Marquess of Graham). He succeeded to the Dukedom in 1954.
He and Isobel became parents of one son (the present Duke) and one daughter, before divorcing in 1950. She later died in 1990.
 
The couple must have gone out to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to farm in the early years of their marriage, as the present Duke was born there. The Marquess stayed there for several years as he was a member of the Rhodesian parliament and held ministerial office on several occasions. He had four children by his second wife, the youngest born thirty years after this wedding!
 
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Huge throngs of people again, probably hoping that the Gloucesters and maybe other royalty, would turn up. At least not freezing weather this time, although rain in April isn't exactly unknown. The couple had three children, but one died in infancy. The third offspring appeared in the year after the end of the war, a quite common occurrence! The Dawnays' only son joined the army, a bit strange with his father a distinguished naval man, but, oh well!
 
Looks like this couple married at Falkland Palace, Fifeshire, a beautiful old Scottish hunting lodge of the Kings of Scotland, in the ownership later of the Marquesses of Bute, the bride's family. The marriage, in spite of this, the attendant Girl Guide troop and the ten bridesmaids, didn't withstand the test of time however. After six years and two children the couple were divorced. They both remarried quickly, very quickly in the Earl's case. He had a new bride installed before Christmas 1936. Ismay, the bride here, didn't waste time crying into her soup either. She remarried in August 1937. Their son Adam (unusual first name for someone born in the 1930's) succeeded his father as Earl but doesn't use his title.
 
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All the village women gathered to inspect and comment later!

This is another union that didn't survive. The bride was very young when she married, just 20. There was one child, who became the 8th Earl, and then divorce in 1938. Something tells me that it might have had something to do with Rose's feelings rather than the Earl's as, although he married twice more, his next venture into matrimony was in 1942.

Rose on the other hand leaped from the divorce court to matrimony in one fell swoop, marrying again in September 1938. This was to a wealthy American called Fiske, who was an Olympic champion and lived one heck of a life.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2002/feb/03/theobserver


Sadly this marriage did not last long as he was killed in action in August 1940, during the Battle of Britain, the first American-born pilot to do so.
 
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The groom was heir to the Marquis of Bute and inherited the title in his turn. He was a keen ornithologist and bought the Isles of St Kilda which were left to the nation for use as a bird sanctuary.

The village turned out for this young couple, including 'the tenantry'! The commentary was in those very clipped tones adopted by broadcasters in those days which you never hear now.

Lady Eileen the bride, whose mother was an American heiress, immediately embarked on baby-bearing duties. Boy twins were born about nine months after the wedding, followed by another son and then, after a long gap, a daughter.
 
CyrilVladisla said:
Lady Mary Crichton-Stuart was the daughter of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute and Augusta Bellingham.
Edward Walker was the son of Arthur Walker.
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Lady Mary married Edward Walker on May 8, 1933 at Brompton Abbey.
She had four bridesmaids. One was Scottish. One was Hungarian. One was Brazilian. One was Spanish.
 
Wedding Princess Isabelle and Earl Bruno d'Harcourt (1923)

On September 12, 1923, Princess Isabelle (1900-1983), daughter of the duke and duchess of Guise, married Count Bruno d'Harcourt (1899-1930) in a civil union in Chesnay in the Yvelines, on the edge of the castle of Versailles.

In this photo, the family poses on the steps of Bellevue Castle, residence in Paris of the Queen D.Amélia.

In the front row the Duke of Guise, Count Bruno d'Harcourt, Princess Isabelle, Queen D.Amélia holding the arm of the young Prince Henri (15 years) future Count of Paris and the Duchess of Guise. Behind her, King Manuel II of Portugal and his wife D. Augusta Victoria.
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CNlZ107U...BE7SU2lW2SzGOtxGBvvACLcBGAs/s640/unnamed8.jpg
Archives : réunion familiale chez la reine Amélie de Portugal - Noblesse & Royautés
 
Lady Mary Lygon wed Prince Vsevolod Ivanovich of Russia on June 1, 1939 in a Russian Orthodox church in Buckingham Palace Road.
 
Eleanor of Portugal (1434-1467) was Holy Roman Empress. She was the wife of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III.
Eleanor was also suggested as a wife for Louis, Dauphin of France, the eldest son of King Charles VII of France.
Eleanor preferred to marry Frederick. A match with Frederick would give her the title of empress instead of queen.
Eleanor and Frederick married in 1452.
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/1277208739
 
CyrilVladisla said:
Eleanor of Portugal (1434-1467) was Holy Roman Empress. She was the wife of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III.
Eleanor was also suggested as a wife for Louis, Dauphin of France, the eldest son of King Charles VII of France.
Eleanor preferred to marry Frederick. A match with Frederick would give her the title of empress instead of queen.
Eleanor and Frederick married in 1452.
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/1277208739
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Eleanor sadly died in 1467 and was the mother of Maximilian I, Future Holy Roman Emperor

Eleanor of Portugal,Holy Roman Empress
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