Milestones, Nov. 4, 1946

Engaged. Daphne Dolores Mercedes Skouras, 24, daughter of cinema tycoon (20th Century-Fox) Spyros Skouras; and Oren Root Jr., 35, Manhattan lawyer, grandnephew of the late great Elihu Root, organizer of the clubs that won Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nomination in 1940; in Rye, N.Y.

Married. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, elder daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, suave Admiral of the Royal Navy, wartime Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and John Ulick Knatchbull, seventh Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late Governor of Bombay and Bengal; by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of King...

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