A NOTABLE WEDDING. Marriage of One of Queen Victoria's Granddaughters.
Darmstadt, April 30.— The marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse to Prince Louis of Battenberg took place to-day. The streets were profusely decorated with flags and thronged with sight-seers. After the performance of the civil marriage the bride was led to the palace chapel by her grandmother and the mother of Grand Duke Louiß. They were followed by a procession composed of the Royal guests, Queen Victoria leading, followed by the Prince and Princess Imperial of Germany, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prineew Beatrice Prince William gf
Prussia, and Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, a brother of the bridegroom. In the procession the bride and bridegroom walked between the Princesses of Battenburg. When the bride and bridegroom exchanged rings at the altar a salute of thirty -six guns was fired. Queen Victoria stood during the choral portion of the services, and at the conclusion of the coremony she embraced the couple. The bride wore the veil of her mother, the late Princess Alice. All the guests except Queen Victoria attended a banquet in the evening. The only toast drunk was to the health of the newly- wedded paii'. The couplo afterwards started for Jugenheim, amid the plaudits of throngs of people. The streets were beautifully illuminated in the evening. .
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Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 53, 7 June 1884, Page 3
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220A NOTABLE WEDDING. Marriage of One of Queen Victoria's Granddaughters. Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 53, 7 June 1884, Page 3
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