Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-01-26
THE ROYAL MARRIAGE
Berlin Gaily Decorated for the
 Occasion.
FESTIVITIES ON A GRAND SCALE

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 Other Foreign News.
 BERLIN, Jan. 26.-The whole city is decorated with flags in celebration of the wedding of Princess Margaret, youngest sister of the Emperor, and Prince Freder- ick Charles of Hesse. The fronts of the large buildings in Unter den Linden and in the Friedrichstrasse for half mile north and south are half hidden with enormous strips of Prussian colors.
 The civil ceremony was performed at 4 o'clock by Count von Wedel, of the Royal household, in the hall of the Empress Frederick palace.
 The bride and bridegroom were taken to the schloss through cheering crowds, which had lined the route since 10 o'clock in the morning.
 At the sclloss all the royal personage es gathered in the Chinese cabinet to see the Empress Augusta Victoria place the bridal crown upon the Princess Mar garet's head.
 Prince Frederick then led his bride to the chapel, where the religious ceremony was performed.
 The wedding banquet was served in the White Hall. After it the royal guests took places under the canopy of the throne and the others ranged themselves to the right and left in a semi circle, in l order of rank.
 Twelve Ministers of State, bearing wax | candles, then began the ''fackeltanz." They invited the bridal couple to dance | and escorted them round the room. The
 bride then invited the emperor to dance and the bridegroom invited the Empress. | After the two couples had made the cir cult of the room, twelve pages took the torches, handed them to others. and the ceremony was continued by the royal guests until it was merged into a general | dance.
 Prince Frederick Charles and his bride will pass the first part of their honey | moon in Potsdam.
 The marriage of Princess Margarethe and Princess Frederick Charles in q meas ure takes away from the Empress Freder- | ick her last daughter, though it is said that the Princess has invariably declared
 that she would live and die an old maid | before she would marry a man who would | take her from her mother. It is believed that their parting will be | only nominal, and that the Empress Fred erick will live much of the time at the | Castle of Pappenheim, which has been l given to Prince Frederick by his elder | brother, the Landgrave of Hesse. l The bridegroom, who is a lieutenant in | Queen Victoria's Prussian Dragoon
 Guards, has salary of only $S5O yearly,
 but the Landgrave of Hesse, who is | enormously wealthy, will see that he is well provided for financially. Princess l Margarethe receives a handsome dowry
 from her mother and very substantial
 wedding gift from Emperor William. | His Majesty has a habit of giving nick
 names to members of his family, and the | application bestowed by him upon Prin-
 cess Margaret is 'Laughing Goose Blos-
 son." which suits the frank, pleasant | countenance and sweet disposition of l the Princess.
 I Princess Margarhethe is thoroughly | English in all her tastes and habits, and f she speaks the language without trace | of German accent, writes it perfectly, | and is a great reader of English books. | She has always been in the habit of
 going with the Empress Frederick to the | Anglican Church, both at Berlin and
 at Hamburg. The Princess, without being
 beautiful is decidedly pretty. She has
 a bright and attractive face and is alto | gether charming.
 Prince Frederick of Hesse is son of
 the late Landgrave Frederick and the
 heir of hIs brother, the Landgrave Alex
 tier, who is in a very intirm state ol
 health and blind since birth.
 | BERLIN, Jan. 26-Emperor William | has conferred the decoration of the Or
 der of the Black Eagle of Prussia upon
 the C;arewitch, who came to Berlin q,
 he representative of the Czar to attenC
 the marriage of the Princess Marga
 ret of Prussia and Prince Frederick o l Hesse.