... Major Benjamin Welles is the elder son of Mr. Sumner Welles, the famous American diplomat who visited Europe as President Roosevelt's special representative in 1940. In January he married the former Mrs. Max Aitken, who is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Hugh Glencairn Monteith. She served with the W.V.S. during the first part of the war, and later went with SIIAEF to Paris. Her husband, who ...

... BE1BRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, REGATTA Major H. Musker and Lord Ruthven The Redwings made a charming picture as they manoeuvred at the start of their race Mrs. L. F. Phillips and Miss Haig Thomas Miss Imogen Chichester, Sir Derrick Gunston and Mr. Alastair Campbell after the racing was over Miss Julia Collins, Mr. Sam Browne and Lord Brabazon who had all been sailing in Lord Brabazon s yacht Tara ...

... The Regatta held recently by the Bembridge Sailing Club at Under Tyne, near Bembridge, was the occasion of some keen racing under excellent weather conditions Miss Cochrane sailing Slievenamon No. 2, and Mr. R. Jansens Ibis in the Redwing class Capt. Dermot Musher up the mast of the yacht Ladybird Mrs. T. Fenwick, Mrs. Hugh Collins and Mrs. Guy Blcivilt pulling their dinghy above high-ivater ...

... The Fair has come to the Island and what a fair Swings and roundabouts, flying-boats, booths, sweet-stalls, a lottery wheel at which one could win anything from a paper rose to a live duck, so long as one kept at it long enough at 20 francs a time, and, best of all to a village where the local cinema only opens Saturdays and Sundays, showing year-old films, a theatre. Such a beautiful frontage ...

... Lord and Lady Rupert Nevill at the Mirabelle. Lady Rupert Nevill was formerly Lady Camilla Wallop, daughter of the Earl of Portsmouth Miss Mary Brock-Edwards, who is the daughter of Lady Chesham, with Captain John Ford at the Bagatelle Lord Luke of Pavenham and Lady Luke at the Mirabelle. Lord Luke succeeded his father, the first Baron, in 1943 Major C. R. Scott and his wife, Lady Elizabeth ...

... His Excellency Dr. Paul J. Ruegger, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Switzerland to Great Britain since 1944, is the subject of the first of The Tatler's new series, At the Court of St. James's, 011 page 195. Dr. Ruegger is not only the Swiss Republic's outstanding diplomat, but also an author of widespread repute, and several of his books 011 international law were ...

... She will act at the Comedie Frangaise. Never before have the French extended such an honour to an English actress THE internationally famous Comédie Francaise has broken a three-hundred-years-old tradition hy its recent invitation to Pamela Stirling to play in the company-- a tribute the more remarkable in view of her youth, for she is only twenty-five years of age. Her first part will be to ...

... IADY GEORGE SCOTT, wife of Lord George Montagu-Douglas-Scott, has been staying at Bexhill with her children, and they have shared a hut at Cooden Beach with the family of Lieut.-Colonel Anthony Stocker, of the 22nd Dragoon Guards. Colonel Stocker and his family are ideally situated for the holiday season as they have a charming country house at Moleyne's Mede, near Bexhill, in the garden of ...

... Aldershof Horse Show The Coaches Turn Out Even a five-mile drive did not take the exhibition gloss off the coach entries at the Aldershot Horse Show, organised by the Corps of Military Police for their Benevolent Fund. The winner was Captain W. Pearson, R.A.S.C. (middle coach) ...

... The Countess Fortescue and the Hon. Mrs. Rupert Hardy were judges in the Ladies Hacks class at Aldershot Horse Show Lieut. -Colonel R. K. Chiesman, President of the Shore, and Major E. N. L. Venn, the Chairman H.R.H. Princess Alexandra presenting the cup to the winner of the Children's Ponies class ...

... GETTING MARRIED The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings Douglas-Home Straker-Smith The Hon. Edward Douglas-Home fourth son of the Earl and Countess of Home of The Hirsel, Coldstream, married Miss Nancy Rose Straker-Smith, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Straker-Smith, of Carham Hall, Cor nhill-on-T weed, at St. Cuthbert's Norham-on-Tweed. The Master of Elphinstone was best man, ...

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