European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy will Brave the Abbey s gloom. The Well known poets Corner. Alfar where couple will wed. 900 unwashed years Westminster Abbey wedding Bells and tombs a John Krueger. Sas London Bureau brides should t find it hard to think of More cheerful places to be married than in Westminster Abbey. But it s the Home Church of British Royalty and Princess Alexandra of Kent will be the next to March Down the aisle through a Nailer of braves and Monu Menta. Princess Alex is to to Mir Rod wednesday to scots businessman Angus Ogilvy. Up reported that Alexandra s Cousin. Queen Elizabeth ii. Will pick up the Tab Tot the Princess wedding Alex Andra s father the Duke of Kent died in a wartime air crash. The old Abbey Ullh its wilderness of won t let us forget our Dale with a Dusty , contributing almost us strongly to the atmosphere in the treat Grimy gloom generating from the Abbey s 900 unwashed funds to which tourists voluntarily contribute were diverted 10 monday. April 22, 1963 years ago to commence the comprehensive clan Nsang of the vast cluttered Interior. A worker about to climb the Omni present scaffolding explained that the or Bath was being Rorr led out with pumice tone and water. Bystanders must be Alert to Small cascades. The familiar West enter Nero. Beneath the twin towers contributes its own Waterfall hex Ned. A Black Cas socked Verger cum a by the Dummy cold to abject sniffling stated that an Anonymous donor was Bear ing the Cost of cleaning the West Entrance. We d like to clean All the outside out we just Haven t got the a reporter was told by an official of the venerated and historic Structure where Queen Elizabeth defender of the was crowned on june 2 1953. Expense of brightening the Interior will come to about i million. Besides their voluntary donation toward the Upkeep of the Abbey visitors also con tribute their Small share when they Are charged to see the most revered sections. Including the hallowed Tomb of Edward the confessor and the magnificent Chapel of Henry Vii. In bygone Days for a fee you could even nit in the old Oaken Coronation chair Over the Stone of scone. These commercial aspects of the Abbey with us special Royal patronage prompted Oliver Goldsmith. 200 years Titto. To in quire with Surprise whether the Abbey was considered a show and whether the paltry sum demanded was not o National reproach but the practice continues and n silent unsmiling attendant shovels in the shall Ings. However. Goldsmith who joined the ranks of those honoured in the poets Corner would be Happy to know that according to the in oat account. Even tons of dirt ant grime have been skinned off the premises in the lust 10 years. The Job won t be finished for at least another two yearn. Three powerful new the stars and stripes vacuum cleaners. It was reported have been used to collect the dirt. At the same time Painter have been Busy applying the Brush and Bright new colors to Many of the splendid effigies on the Sarcophagi. The Verger beam contentedly when you comment on their House of worship which is giving weddings funerals burials and coronations1 a new look. Perhaps even Washington Irving would t find the magnificence so Mournful these Days. After rambling about the old pile he observed that there 1 a sad dreariness in this magnificence this strange mixture of tombs and some officials admit that the Monu ments have Mode sad havoc with the Irving saw the Abbey As the Empire of death his great shadowy Palace where he sits in state mocking at the relics of human glory and spreading dust and forgetfulness on the monuments of Prince Page ii
