"QUEEN" FOR A DAY
Albania, the Balkan State ruled by King Zog, is a quaint mixture of the new and the old. In place of railways the inhabitants -have up-to-date air services, but they sill cling to their picturesque marriage customs. Young girls ,■- are. not "allowed out of their motherfs sight until they are betrothed, •butwheh.they are officially engaged, they may "queen it for a day or two over all-'their circle. Seated on. a sort of throne-'they receive .the homage- and gifts of relations and friends: On the day of the wedding the bridegroom and the best man and friends form a procession and- cali for the bride. They take 'her,' heavily veiled, to church, while her parents remain at home. The girl usually rides on a horse led by the best-man, and to keep up the pretence of capture the men discharge guns as they; march-along singing,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 11
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148"QUEEN" FOR A DAY Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 11
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