ROYAL WEDDING
BRILLIANT CEREMONY EXPECTED FINELY-DECORATED TRAIN United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. ROME, Wednesday. The Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, is making a stupendous effort to organise a worthy ceremony for the Royal wedding on January 8. He is sending a magnificently decorated special train from Italy to Brussels to fetch the Princess Mario Jose, her parents, and her ladies-in-waiting to Italy. Hundreds of workmen are busy painting the traiu and hanging the carriages with tapestries in the Italian colours of red, white and green. Signor Mussolini is also organising a processing showing all the peasant costumes from the Tyrol to Sicily. Five thousand foot and 400 horsemen are taking part. The procession will be accompanied by characteristic music and dancing. it will xiass through the streets of Rome during the wedding celebrations, and later will be repeated in the provincial centres.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 850, 19 December 1929, Page 11
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