More than 1,000 people attended the wedding of Prunella Stack, twenty-two-year-old leader of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, and Lord David Douglas-Hamilton, youngest son of the Duke. and Duchess of Hamilton, in Glasgow Cathedral. Among their 2,000 wedding presents was a set of enamel coffee spoons from the Prime Minister and Mrs. Neville Chamberlain.
Women guests greatly admired the uniforms of green, black and silver designed by the bride and worn for the first time by sixteen specially chosen members of the League. Those who were fortunate enough to Obtain a good view of the ceremony were also interested in the new kind of automatic device which enabled the bride to release her veil at the proper moment after the ceremony.
The device was a tiny cord finished with a large pearl hanging at the side just by her ear, and this she could pull in one single jerk and release the face veil, which was separate from her long wedding veil of pearl-coloured tulle,
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