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The Bright Young People - mock Rayner-Ponsonby wedding

A group of Bright Young Things indulging in one of their many silly pranks, in this case a mock wedding where Elizabeth Ponsonby married John Rayner. The best man was Robert Byron. Also present is Babe Plunkett Green beside Elizabeth. The wedding party breakfasted at a well-known Piccadilly restaurant where a cleric addressed them, though it was later discovered he was not from the parish he said he was

Picture No
11673957
Media ID
46152523
Size
4345px x 5864px (3.6MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Tatler, 30 January 1929
Date
1929

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