Picture No | 10499765 |
Date | 24th October 1931 |
Description | Royal wedding of Henry Abel Smith to Lady May Cambridge,1931 |
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Lady May Cambridge(1906 - 1994), Daughter of the Earl and Countess of Athlone (Alexander of Teck and Princess Alice), on the occasion of her marriage to Sir Henry Abel Smith(1900-1993). Born Princess May of Teck, May was a niece of King George V and Queen Mary, and a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Unusually for a royal wedding, they married in a village church, St Mary's Balcombe in West Sussex. Princess Elizabeth of York, later Queen Elizabeth II, was one of the bridesmaids, aged just 5 years old.
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Source | Photograph by Vandyk in The Sphere 31st October 1931, page 175. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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