Invitations to the wedding of the Duke of Kent and Princess Marina have been accepted by nearly twenty: members of foreign royal families. In passing, one is almost inclined to marvel that in these days of democracy and dictatorship, there are twenty royal families left, Most of them will bbe put up in Buckingham Palace but some will have to be boarded out in hotels.
'Two enormous parties, including over 1,000 guests, fre to be given at the palace in Princess Marina's honour two days preceding the wedding. For the latter, the royal gardens at Windsor will' supply all the flowers, chiefly orchids, begonias and sed and white carnations. Three: thousand spikes of the latter will be! chosen. The Princess's bouquet will contain a sprig of myrtle from a tree at Windsor which has supplied myrtle
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