Wedding bells rang out again on November
6th 1935 when the Duke of Gloucester married Lady Alice Montague-Douglas-Scott.
The bride was born on Christmas Day 1901, the third daughter of the seventh
Duke of Buccleuch. The bridegroom was the third son of the King and Queen
and, at the time of the marriage, a Major in the 10th Royal Hussars and
Colonel-in-Chief of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Again, the House of
Windsor was to be linked with a Scottish family of noble lineage.
The special Wedding Number of the ILN was published on
November 9th,
(Appendix List No. 106)
and records the early days of the bride, emphasizing her talents as an
artist and big-game photographer, and those of the bridegroom, again in
his role as expert sportsman. The issue has photographs of the bride driving
from Grosvenor Place in a glass coach and the farewell from the Palace
whence the couple travelled to Broughton House, Northamptonshire, where
they were to spend the first part of their honeymoon. The actual wedding
was to have taken place in Westminster Abbey, but the death of the bride’s
father necessitated a change of plans and the marriage was solemnized
in the Private Chapel in Buckingham Palace.
The cover design is based on the arms of the Duke of Buccleuch in which
the family’s motto ‘Amo’ (I love) and the supporters
of the Arms (two female figures with ostrich feathers in their headdresses)
are the main features. Between the standing figures in circular frames
are portraits of the bride and groom above which is a garland of flowers
and tartan ribbon and the arms borne by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
on their marriage.
This is issue number 5038, vol. 187, pages 759-822, measuring 37 x 26
cm and priced at one shilling.