THE ROYAL WEDDING

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1930, Page 6

THE ROYAL WEDDING

BRIDE’S COMPOSURE

DOVES USED AS SIGNALS

[United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] ROME, Jan. 8, During the wedding, Princess Marie .lose throughout bore herself with simple, compelling dignity.

Hundreds of whites doves were released from a turret of the Quifinal Palace, and they gave the news to the crowded streets that the marriage had been completed, causing cheers ■throughout the city. : Each dove had a tiny card/ with the letters “U” and “M” hanging from its neck.

Another feature of the celebrations was that hundreds of aeroplanes gathered from all parts of the country. Circling over Rome, they dropped flowers while the marriage was being celebrated. ; No fewer than sixty-throe royalties were present at the wedding, including kings and princes who are without kingdoms, but who were welcomed by their inherent rights of royal blood, from the Compte De Paris (a taill young Bourbon) to the sallow ex-King Amanuliah. Escorting long princesses there were Greek and Portuguese ex-royalties. There also were present; Prince Rupert ,of Bavaria, .in- an old German uniform, the Archduke Joseph of Austria, wearing a marvellous Magyar rirpiq of fur and (plum-coloured velvet. „ The Duke of York escorted -the Duchess Vendome, belonging to the French Royal Family. The women all wore light-coloured dresses, beneath white lace veils, including the world’s ; greatest lace treasures. Some were decorated with jewelled crowns 'and tiaras. They looked like four hundred brides gathered to meet the Princess.

MUSSOLINI STANDS OUT

ROAIE, Jan. 9

At the wedding an extraordinary contrast was the spectacle of Signor Mussolini walking alone in his Prime Minister’s uniform, with a blue order across his plain coat, and possessing an air of remarkable vitality. He seems to go through life with an invisible wreath of laurels on his brow. Ho smiled repeatedly as most distinguished women lifted their arms in the Fascist salute.