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Wedding of the Earl of Dalkeith, heir to the Dukedom of Buccleuch, married Jane McNeill, a Norman Hartnell model, at St. Giles’s Cathedral in Edinburgh on this day in 1953. Among the guests included the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret (formerly expected to marry the groom), the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (aunt of the groom), and Prince William and Prince Richard (a pageboy) of Gloucester.