New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-14
A ROYAL WEDDING.
SCENES AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE
LEOPOLD AND PRINCESS HELEN

To prevent mistakes as to identity WIZ ooe -
remarking that the marriage of Ills koya nisnno''
Leopold George Duncan Albert. Duke u A'oa"9'
Fori of Clarence Baron Asklow, Duke OF Saxony'
pr;r,a - SoYc-robure and Gotha. Knight of the
Most Noble Order of the Garter. Fourth Son OF her
Mo;ostv opeen Victoria and of His Royal Hlghness
,bs prince Consort. Duke of Saxony and Prince OF
Sa1.. Coburo and Gotha with Her Serene hlghness
pr;poess HELEN FREDERICK Augusta, Fourth Daughter
of His Serene Hghness the Reigning Prince OF
waldeck and Pyrmont. solemnZed I'D
ST Georges Chapel, Windsor yesterday, thursday,
April 81 1882. And if any good American. Versed
in matters of dignity, undertake to cavil al tnis
array of titles let him know in advance that IL is
copied from the official programme of the ceremony
| am not sure that anything which remains TO DO
SAID will be equally impressive or oppressive TO the
imagination of the general reader
Wedding or no wedding journey to windsor
and walk on the North Terrace OF tho Castle are
among the most delightful things one can do withih
an hour from London. 1t is the custom TO speak
of the town of Windsor, more especially when
decked in flags on occasions OF royal ceremony III
tones of subdued rapture. 1t is the royal
borough and has probably presented more aa-
dresses 10 Majesty and Royalty, and had more to do
with royal festivities than all other boroughs put
together But so much of the town as one sees III
walking from the railway station is huddIed To-
cether beneath the gates of the Castle In q con-
fused and depressing way. Like its Mayor ana
burgesses it has the air OF beng per-
manently PROSTATE at the 1eet VI
the Throne. Not an exharating spectacle, even
with banners in Its windows, and Berkshire
volunteers parading Its streets. But pass out OF
these dowdy streets into the Castle grounds ana
the severest republican may rejoice III the statel-
ness of the really royal life III the midst OF which he
stands and of the lovely English view when
reaches far down the valley of the silver Thames
and touches the deep blue-gray of the Berkshire
hills on the horizon. | have seen it all often
enough. but l it again yesterday with per-
fectly fresh delight. In company with a friend
to whom it was altogether novel-he
Briton too, and of ripe age-l spent
an hour before the neutrality-suspicious. began
in strolling about so much OF the grounds as
were left open for the day. am afraid we cared
less than we ought for the ceremony, but every
thing has long since been said about the Castle, and
this particular wedding has never been celebrated
before and must have paragraph or two to ITSELF.
And after all, it is only the outside of the
wedding can tell you anything about My friend
and went not into the chapel partly because we
preferred the open air, partly because we had no
tickets for the inside. And 1t IS ques-
ton which of the two sights was best
worth seeing the gathering in the chapel
where millinery was in its supreme glory, or the
professions through castle-gate and caste-yard.
For of professions it required less than four to
see this young lady of Wadeck and Pyrmont prop
erly on her way from her apartments in Windsor
Castle 10 the door of the edice of mixed Gothic in
which she was to be made wife; not to speak OF
the repeated and redup Heated arrangements of
the composite elements of each exterior procession
in the interior itself All these / saw. In the
marching orders of the day they were strictly dis
criminated-so strictly that any deviation
from the exact sequence and disposition of
the personages in each would derange
the sweet symmetry and ordered excellence of the
whole Short of copying those five columns of cat
alogue mentioned above, see no way of assigning
to each individual his and her due precedence In
the display. But there is happily such thing as
general impression, and the most indifferent spec
tator would not hesitate to say that his general i'm
preston of these proceedings was an impression OF
| extreme magnifcence. If the array and movement
| lacked anything, they lacked variety. From be-
ginning to end it was one glory OF gold and scarlet
| Steeds of golden bay, trappings and
| harness of gold coachmen and footmen
| in hveries, whether of gold, with scarlet
| trimming or of scarlet trimmed with gold, it were
hard to saw carriages probably not OF solid gold,
but gilt till the gilt springs bent again beneath
their Welght-tDeSt moved past al intervals
hour or more. There were intervals mercifnly ar
ranged for rest to the eye and intervals of sunshine
and sudden gloom. which left it doubtful whether
the spleDdor were more ntoerable in the glare Of
| unclonded noon or when all this gorgeousness
| shone against sombre sky, and against the bril-
! liant green of the castle yard, and against the
long lines of gray walls, flashed through the
blackn ess of the frowning archway which in
earlier days framed the huge figure of Henry the
| Eighth.
| While we stood on the COOL damp sward we were
permitted to witness the passing of many of the
| privileged guests who made no part of any of
| the four royal detachments who were to arrive
| later This is in q sense, a family matter The
great Ministers of State, the purely political person.
| ages the Ambassadors and many Others. together
with the il wives and womenkind, are to certain
extent recognized in the programme, but also to a
certain extent ignored They have places in the
chapel but are left to get there by them
selves If they summoned from
| London carriages out of the royal news
await them at Windsor Station. A procession of
| these arrive before any of the royal dukes and
princes and their innumerable suites are in notion
Not many of them identified by the spectators
| not one, so fa- j heard, cheered; not even
| Mr.. Fawcett who drove in open carriage with
| Mr.. Mundella nor yet the Turkish Ambassador and
| his daughter. who distinguished and dis
| tinguishabe in the way. Hardly anybody
! else was not covered in Lord Harrington excepted
who did not drive at ALL but in company with
Lord Northbrook walked up, and reused the keenest
| curiosity by wearing laced fiat cap on his head.
| OF the four professions the first was that of the
Royal family. and much the most numerous of all ;
twelve carriages, think In case of close necessity,
ii is probable that the members of the Bruins
wick family here present could be conveyed IN less
than twelve carriages. But Royalty strs not ont of
doors unattended. Each Prince and Princess is ac-
| companied by squire or dame of high degree APP