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Double Royal Wedding

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
May
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Max von Binzer, wbo served as " page at the Berliu court' ' upon the oecasion oï the doublé royal wedding ia 1877, graphically describes the ceremony and attendant festivities in The Ladies' Home Journal. "At 11 o'clocko the rnorning of the 18th of February, 1877," he writes, "the day of the wed-, ding, we found ourselves posted again en espalier down the White hall. As tho royal procession entered the chapel adjoining a magnificent chorus intonei one of Mendelssohn's superb psalms. The illustrious group ranged themselve before the altar, and Dr. Kogel, cota chaplain, began the impressive ceremony. As the wedding rings were exchanged heavy artillery boomed foröi the king's sahite of 101 guns. The royal families exchanged congratulation and the cortege retnrned again to tbs White hall for a short reception, and at 5 o'clock we were summoned again for the great wedding banquet. Unquestionably this banquet was the moet unique of modern times. "Covers for 100 persons wero laid on tables arrangcd in the form of a horseshoe in the Hall of Knights. None bufc those of princely blood was to sit at these tables. The most noble and distinguished vassals of the emperor wei to serve their royal m aster and his gt sts. The Count von W and myself were detailed to Leopold, king oí Belgium. However, we were but links in a chain of notables along which the viands were passed to his majesty. Nexfc the king and immediately back of hia chair stood the commaiider of an entiie army corps; next in the rear stood a court chamberlain, to whom we handed the various dishes. He in turn passed them to the general, who personally served King Leopold. The emperoi; William I, was served by the most powerful nobles of the empire. Count voa Stolberg-Wernigerode, grand master of the hunt, carved the game; Prince voa Pless, the grand cup bearer, filled his imperial majesty's crystal goblet with. the rarest wines of the 'Vaterland." But, curiously enough, none of the recipients of this reniarkable homago seemed at ease, with the exception of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, who was evidently much interested in the Grand Duchess of Baden, the lady on his right They alone talked and laughed in au. unconstrained manner. The wedding ball followed thisremarkablebanquet"

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier