THE daughter of Timothy Clifford, doyen of the Scottish arts scene, has discovered that she is not officially married following an embarrassing paperwork blunder at her wedding ceremony earlier this month.
Pandora Clifford and Ivo Curwen, an architect, have been told that they are still officially single, even though their glittering wedding was overseen by a bishop and attended by 350 guests.
Mr Clifford said last night that no-one had remembered to bring the legal papers needed to make the marriage official, and revealed that friends and family were looking forward to a second celebration when the couple return from a honeymoon in Kenya and the Seychelles to get the legal papers in order.
The director of the National Galleries of Scotland, who hosted a lavish party after the ceremony in St Mary's Church, Haddington, said: ''In England, you don't need to have a registration document. It is done by the priest, but north of the border you have to have a piece of paper.
''Unfortunately, none of us knew the situation was different. In the eyes of God, she was married, but as far as the Scottish legal system is concerned, she has got to have that piece of paper.''
Miss Clifford, a former pupil of St Leonard's school in St Andrews, graduated in classics at Bristol University before studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
Since then, her acting career has included parts in the TV police series, The Bill, and a starring role in in the film Nine Lives, which was shown at last year's Cannes film festival.
Mr Curwen works with an architect's firm which has offices in London and Portugal.
The couple were married in an Episcopalian ceremony on July 14 with the service conducted by Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh.
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