The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-01-26
ROYAL WEDDING BELLS.
The Sister of Emperor William
Becomes a Bride.
RUssIA's : CzARoWITz PRESENT.
Berlin Respienient with CoIors In Honor
of the Event-The bridegroom, Prince
Frederick Carl, Presented with q Castle
by His Brother.

oil the ENeht--Ihc BrtueBrooin, Prince
Frederick Carl, Presented with q Castle
by His Brother.
BERLIN, Jan. 2G-The whole city is dec
GRATED with flags in celebration of the
wedding of the Princess Margaret. young
est sister of the emperor, and Prince Fred
erick Charles Of Hesse. &C fronts of the
large buildings Untcr den Linden and In
the FriedrischStrasse for half mile north
and south, were half hidden with enormous
Prussiau colors Nj the building near the
palace of the Empress Frederick had been
decorated at public expense so lavishly as
to make the whole district n blaze of colors.
The civil ceremony was performed by
Count Won Wedel, of the royal household,
in The hall of the Empress tredericks
palace. The bride and bridegroom were
taken to the schloss through cheering
crowds.
At the schloss all the royal personaees
gathered in the Chinese cabinet to see the
Empress Augusta Victoria place the bridal
crown upon the Princess Margaret's head.
Prince Frederick Charles and his bride
then led the procession to the chapel, where
the religious ceremony was performed.
They were followed by the Empress Fred
erick, escorted by the emperor in the gala
uniform of the Garde du Corps aud wear
ing the decoration of the Black Eagle and
the Garter, md by the Landgrave of Hesse,
the Empress Augusta Victoria, escorted
by the King Of s;aNony, and by the czare
witch in the inform of the Westphalian
hu.sRrs, the Iangravin Hesse escorted by
the Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand
Duke of Baden.
Court Chaplain Draunder awaited the
bridal party at the altar in bower of
4
Margaret made her responses freely, but
in such a low tone that only those in the
front seats heard her voice As the couple
exchanged rings the artillery in the Lust
garten fired thrty-six salvos.
The ceremony was followed by the we'd
ding banquet, after which came the fax
etanH" Chancellor Won Caprisi was ex-
cuSed by the Emperor William from par
ticipating in this dance.
Dancing the "EaIteitamz."
After the wedding banquet the guests
took places under the canopy of the throne,
and the others ranged themselves to the
right and left in semi-circla in order of
rank. Twelve ministers Of state bearing
WAX candles then began the 'fakeltauz." :"
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 merged intoa general dance
Finally the pages led the procession, and
escorting the young couple TO the door of
the bridal chamber, the mistress of the
robes distributed gurters among the gen
tlemen and the celebration was ended for
the night.
The wedding presents were displayed at
the palace Of the Empress Frederick En-
peror Williams gift was string Of large
diamonds, the briaegrooms five magmit-
cent diamond rings Among the gifts was
shown the one presented to the Princess
Margaret by King llumbert then crown
prince, at the time of her baptism. 1t is a
massive gold datleni, heaVily jcweled and
n brooch and necklace Of black pearls. All
the pieces were the workmanship of the
celebrated goldsmith Ca,tleand
The revival Of the "fal>cltanz," u quaint
| custom at prBssian weddings has caused
some adverse comment, as it is believed
hardly 10 become the dignity OF ministers
of state to lead i'll it.
Frederick Carl in measure takes away
from the Empress Frederick her last
! daughter, though it is said that the
princess has invariably declared that she
wui.ld live t1d dio an old maid before she
/ wolld marry a man who would take iler
fFafa her mother. II is believed that their
! parting will be only nominal and thai The
Empress Frederick will live much Of the
time nj the castle OF i'appenheim, which
has been given 10 Prince Frederick Carl
by his elder brother, the landgrave of
Hesse
The bridegroom who is a lieutenant In
Queen Victoria j Prussan 6fagoon guards,
has a salary Of only 500 marks yearly,
but the i.RndgraFe of lIesse, who is enor-
monsly wealthy, will see that he is pro-
vided for financially Princess Margaret
receives handsome dowry from her
mother, and she received Il very substantial
Wedding gilt from Emperor William.
The principal foreign representative,
from a political point of view, was the
czarowitz, who was present as the repre-.
sentative OF the ear.