PRINCESS VICTORIA MARRIED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19164, 22 November 1927, Page 11

PRINCESS VICTORIA MARRIED.

A QUIET CEREMONY, i (BY CABUt—PBSS3 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIA* AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) BERLIN, November 20. The ceremony at Princess Victoria's marriage was very quiet. The pair and the witnesses drove unostentatiously to the Bonn Town Hall in a private car. Even the Princess's household was unaware of the wedding and no relatives were present. The Princess was dressed in grey, with a rope of pearls, and carried no flowers. The news spread quickly, and nearly 1000 gathered outside the Town Hall. There will be a religious ceremony on Monday, according to the Greek Catholic rites. The venue is unknown. It is believed that the couple will leave after it on a lengthy tour, in the hope that they will forget the annoyances and insults which have taken every form from the most disgraceful anonymous messages to actual threats. It is stated that the Princess will be known in future as Victoria von Zoubkoff. The bridegroom is not a baron, but the prefix "von" is accepted as the nearest equivalent to the Russian word meaning nobleman. A STRANGE CONTRAST. (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 21st, 7 45 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. A strange comparison with her previous marriage is made by the correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" at Bonn in reference to Princess Victoria's wedding. He says: "Watching the lonely exKaiser's sister slip into the registry office, one wondered whether hei mind reverted for a moment to the amazingly contrasted circumstances of her previous wedding 37 years ago, when, a young and beautiful bride, she married Prince Schaumburg-Lippe. Berlin then was beflagged and she was surrounded by the pomp of Prussia. Hundreds of thousands of people cheered as the young Princess drove through the streets of the capital, the centre of glittering representatives of a mighty army, while the Kings and ruling Prin-

ces of independent States were present. To-day not a single member of the dynasty was present, and there was a total silence as the Princess passed into the registry office, attired in a dark walking dress and noticeably pale The bridegroom was closely wrapped in a fur collared coat. The only guest at the luncheon at the Princess's town Bouse was the Russian mother of the youthful bridegroom.