The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, April 4, 1922

They Make A Fine Couple - But Which?

1) Lady Doris Gordon-Lennox, daughter of the Earl of and Countess of March and granddaughter of the Duke of Richmond. 

2) Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, descendant of one of England’s wealthiest families.

3) Lady Diana Bridgeman, who’s only 14, but who nevertheless has long been reckoned as a likely match for the prince.

4) Lady Mary Thynne, third daughter of the Earl of Bath, who is 19 and whose last name is pronounced as if “Tin”.

Announcement of the Price of Wales’ engagement is expected to follow promptly his return from abroad to England. Four young women are mentioned as possibilities, and they are shown here, each with the prince.

Edward didn’t marry until 15 years after the publication of this story. All four of these ladies were bridesmaids at Edward’s sister Mary’s wedding in February 1922, which is probably where the reporter got the idea for the article. The fourth lady, Lady Mary Beatrice Thynne, was bridesmaid to the second lady, Elizabeth, when she married Edward’s brother Albert the next year (1923). Albert would become King George VII when Edward, as King Edward VIII, abdicated and married Wallis Simpson in 1937 and became the Duke of Windsor. Elizabeth, lady number two, was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II.