Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-29
ROYAL WEDDING
At GERMAN COURT
Three Emperors Make Event
Demonstration of Inter-
national Peace.

lof Prussia. only daughter of the German
Emperor and Empress, and Prince Ernest
August of Cumberland We're married with
the rites of the Lutheran Church at five
O'Clock yesterday afternoon in the Royal
chapel of the imperial castle, the cere-
mony sealing the reconciliation between
the dethroncd house of Hanover. to which
the groom belongs and the House of Ho-
hcnzollern. The presence of the three
most powerful sovcreigns of Europe, the
German Emperor. the Russian Emperor
and the British King Emperor, on terms
of intimate friendship, made the event
a demonstration of International peace.
The civil ceremony had been performed
half an hour earlier in the Great Electors
hail, small room in the most ancient
court of tho castle, attended only by the
immediate families of the bride and BRIDE
groom.
n state banquet was given at the castle
in the evening, followed by the historic
torch dance and the distribution to the
guests Of souvenir ''garters" in the form
of silk ribbons bearing the brides initials
and the date in gold letters, which modern
delicacy has substituted for the pieces of
the brides garter, formerly cut up and
distributed by the princes of the royal
| family on the points of the swords.
The bridal couple left Immediately aft
erward for the Emperor's hunting seat at
Huhcrtusslock, whore they will pass the
first week of their honeymoon then going
for a fortnight to the Duke of Cumber-
lands hunting castle near Gmuenden.
AMERICANS AMONG THE GUESTS
The guests who were to attend the
solemn religious service assembled in
the octagOnal chapel at the other end
of the castle, which had been richly
decorated with flowers Among them
were the United States ambassador.
John G. a. Lcishman, and his wife and
| daughter; Joseph G. Grow, secretary
of the American embassy, and his
wife; Capt Albert Niblack American
naval attaChe. Miss Yvette Borup of
New York. who had been educated
with the bride at the Empress Angus
| Ia Institute, and dozen school girls
| whom the young princess insisted on
inviting at the last moment in return
| Tor personally embroidered present.
choir of men and boys was sta =
toned In the high gallery encircling
| the chapel Just below the dome, where
| they sang hymns, unaccompanied by
instrumental music
At the conclusion of the civil cere-
mony. the bridal procession was mar
! shaled into line by Count August zu
Eulenburg, grand marshal of the i'm =
perial court. and proceeded the whole
length of the castle through a series
of state apartments to the Royal
Chapel 1t was led by the bridal
, "a nj
borne by four of her gill friends.
PROCESSION OF ROYAL PERSON
AGES.
Fflhce Ernest August of Cumberland
was dressed in Prussian Hlssar uni
FORM. After them came Emperor VIII
liam and the Duchess of Cumberland
Ihen followed In order, the Duke of
Cumberland with the German Empress.
Emperor Nicholas OF Russia with Queen
Mary of England, iling George OF Eng
land with Crown Princess Cecilie, EN-
peror Williams sons with their consorts,
and % or more other princes and prin-
cesses of the royal blood
Dr. Ernest Dryander, the grand chan
IAN of the court who had baptized
| Princess Victoria Luise, and prepared
her for her confirmation. performed the
marriage ceremony, which was the
simple Lutheran rite. He then delivered
the customary address of advice and
admoniton to the newly married couple
AS the rings were being exchanged be-
fore the altar, n battery of artillery sta
toned outside the cast, fired a royal
salute.
Then the Prince and Princess, Emperor
William, Empress Augusta Victoria and
the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland
returned to the White Hall of the castle,
where the newly welded pair received
the CONGRATULATIONS of the guests, while
seated beneath a canopy at small tables
DRTzzLING RAIN OPENED DAY.
The wedding day of the only daugh-
ter of the German Emperor and EN-
press, Princess Victoria Luise, opened
! unpleasantly as far as the weather was
concerned. The day was dark and over
cast and a penetrating drzzle made
movements along the streets disagree
able
From an early morning hour the
streets were alive with people watching
the constant passing of brilliantly uni
formed attendants of the many royal
personages, including the German, Rus
sian ana British Emperors, gathered here
Tor the ceremony. Virtually every house
was hung with some bunting, and at
many OF the windows were punches of
eVergreens while brightly colored flow
eTs mad been placed on the balconies,