Lady Alice's attendants are announced

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 November 4, 1935 

 The AP reports today that "a little Princess, who might someday bear the weight of the British Empire upon her shoulders," is one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott on Wednesday. 

Princess Elizabeth of York, 9, and her younger sister, five-year-old Princess Margaret Rose, will be two of the bridesmaids when their uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, weds the daughter of the late Duke of Buccleuch. 

Lady Alice will have eight bridesmaids. The other six bridesmaids are Lady Mary Cambridge, 11, a grandniece of Queen Mary; Lady Elizabeth Scott, 13, the daughter of the Earl of Dalkeith; the bride's brother; Miss Ann Hawkens, 7, and Miss Clare Phipps, 14, the bride's nieces; Lady Angela Scott, the bride's sister, and Miss Moyra Scott, a cousin. Lady Alice and her sister, Lady Angela have been "inseparable companions" since childhood, and they had made a pact "that whoever married first should have the other as a bridesmaid."

 A sprig of myrtle "from a venerable myrtle tree in the Frogmore Gardens" at Windsor will be included in Lady Alice's bouquet. This has been a tradition for royal brides since Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840.