Lord Asquith in Newcastle and Miss Elizabeth Asquith weds Prince Bibesco.
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- Film ID:
- 2358.15
- Media URN:
- 75902
- Group:
- Old negatives
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 1919
- Sound:
- Silent
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:02:23:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:41:16:00 / 01:43:39:00
- Canister:
- ON 247 D
Unknown user says
Here is an ironic fact about this fragment of film from the wedding of Prince Antoine Bibesco and Elizabeth Asquith. There had been a bidding war between Pathé and the Scottish (British) Moving Picture News company for the rights to film the "wedding of the century". When SMP won the rights to film the wedding, held at St Margaret's Westminster, (with the Queen, Bernard Shaw and a pantheon of the great of England in attendance). Pathé was left with the dregs - a few seconds of the arrival of the bride's family and a few seconds of their exit from the church. The irony? - The complete wedding film, apparently the first to be made since the change of name from "Scottish" to "British", was later scrapped for its silver content and not longer exists. We are left with just these few seconds from "the loser".
Unknown user says
The man giving out the silver cups is not Asquith, it is Edward Carson, the barrister who famously cross examined Oscar Wilde and leader of the Ulster Unionists in the 1910s. On his left is James Craig, another Ulster Unionist leader and later Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
Carson and Craig were the two main protagonists of the Ulster/Home Rule crisis of 1912-14 which saw the signing of the Ulster Covenant in 1912, and the formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in 1913. As the two of them are standing together, I imagine that the award ceremony is for Ulstermen, perhaps in the UVF.