Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-24
KA|SER'S ONLY
DAUGHTER WEDS
HIS FOES SON
Princess Victoria Luise Be-
comes Bride of Prince Ernst
of Cumberland.
FIVE CROWNED HEADS
ATTEND REGAL WEDDING
Emperor Leads Duchess of
Cumberland, Duke the En-
press in NuptiaI Procession.

BERLIN, May 24.--Amid regal
splendor, unabated by the lowering
skies and an occasional penetrating
drizzle, Princess Victoria Luise, only
daughter of the emperor and en-
press of Germany, today became the
bride of Prince Ernst of Cumberland.
The Duke of Cumberland Prince
Ernst's father and the kaiser had
long been bitter enemies Indeed,
the feud of the houses of Hohenzol-
lern and Hanover was as implaca-
Bile as that of the Montagues and
Capulets. But the modern Juliet,
Princes Victoria Luise, and her Ro-
meo, Prince Ernst, succeeded better
in bridging over the difficulty and
bringing the hostile families together
than their prototypes in Shake
speare's play
The short formal civil marriage
was completed at exactly 4:30 this
afternoon.
In the meantime the guests who
were TO attend the religious services
had assembled in the octagonal
chapel at the other end of the cas-
tie The room was richly decorated
with flowers.
Among the guests were the United
States ambassador, John G. A. Leish-
man, and his wife and daughter; Jo-
seph C. Grew, secretary of the Amer
lean embassy, and his wife; Captain
Albert Niblack, American naval at
taohe; Miss Yvette Borup, of New
York who was a schoolmate of the
bride at the Empress Augusta In
stitute, and a dozen excited school
girls whom the young princess in
sisted on Inviting at the last moment
in return for personally embroidered
present.
che IN and boys was sta
toned gallery encircling
the below the dome,
hymns unaccom-
antal music.
] of the civil cere-
mony me pIruaI procession was mar
shaled into line by Count August Zu
Gutenberg, grand marshal of the in-4
-srs4' court, and then proceeded the
whole length of the castle through a
long series of state apartments to the
royal chapel. 1t was led by the bridal
couple, the princesss train being
borne by four of her girl friends.
Prince Ernst August of Cumberland
was dressed in Prussian Hussar uni
form.
ioyaity's Procession.
Al them came Emperor William
with he Duchess of Cumberland.
Then followed in order the Duke of
Cumberland with the GermaA en-
press, the Emperor Nicholas of Rus
sia with Queen Mary of England,
King George of England with Grown
y Princess Cecilie, the Emperor Will
iam's sons with their consorts and
fifty or more other princes and prin-
ceases of the royal blood.
Dr. Ernst Dryander, the grand
chaplain of the court. who had bap-
tized Princess Victoria Luise and pre-
pared her for her confirmation, per-
formed the ceremony. which was the
simple Lutheran rite. He then de-
livered the customary address of ad-
vice and admonition to the newly
married couple.
AS the rings were exchanged before
the altar, a battery of artillery sta
toned outside the castle fired royal
salute.
Then the prince and princess. with
Emperor William and Empress Au-
gusta Victoria, and the Duke and
Duchess Of Cumberland, returned to.
the White Hall of the castle, where
they received the congratulations of
the guests while seated beneath
canopy at small tables The guests
def1led past them making profound
bows and courteses
From an early hour the streets were
olf od Nv roif1
coats and umbrellas the people
watched the constant passing of bril-
liantly uniformed attendants on the
many royal personages gathered here
for the ceremony.
Flowers and Bunting Everywhere.
Every house was hung with bunt-
ing and at most of the windows were
punches of evergreens. Bright-col-
ored flowers graced porches and tall
comics. The many palaces and public
Offices had hoisted their largest flags,
and when later in the morning the
wind strengthened in intensity and
the downpour abated. these flew gaily
in the eye. The sky, however, re-
maipf 1omy and many visitors
from .sincial towns were disconso-
late as the clouds threatened each
moment to break again.
Every school throughout the empire
was closed in honor of the occasion.
and the school children Of the capital
in charge of their teachers paraded
the streets or took up their positions
At advantageous points waiting pa
tiently to see the various royal pro-
cessions.
The wedding functions themselves
began in the afternoon with the
\ robing of the young bride, at which
her mother, the German empress. pre-
sided.
The bride wore wonderfully
worked gown of silver brocade with
court train of the same material
embroidered with a myrtle and or
ange flower design and lined with er-
mine.
The brides veil, like her entire toll
cite. was Of German manufacture.
II was composed of two-yard length
Of lace, on which eighty Siilesian
girls had worked day and night for
six weeks. A
The last act In the robing of the
bride was performed by the empress
when she p'gHed on her daughter $
head the 4 ,ric crown worn by
Prussian pf, ssses at their we'd
dings.