Royal Wedding In Paris
(N.Z.P.A. —Reuter—Copyright) PARIS, January 16
Princess Helene of France, daughter of the Count of Paris. Pretender to the French Throne, was married at. Louveciennes today to the 28-year-old Belgian. Count Everard de LimbourgStirum.
Princess Alexandra of Kent represented the British Royal Family at the civil ceremony, held in the Louveciennes Town Hall in the presence of only about 30 close members of the bride and bridegroom’s families.
The religious wedding—during which the bride will wear a white Christian Dior bridal gown—wiM take place tomorrow in the ancient and tiny Chapel of Dreux. in Normandy.
The father of the 22-year-old. dark-haired bride, is Henri, Count of Paris. Prince of Orleans, the great-great-grandson of the last King of France, Louis-Philippe I. who reigned from 1830 to 1848 A galaxy of European nobility had converged on Paris to celebrate the Royal wedding. The list of guests, which includes 40 princes and 19 members of European Royality is headed by Queen Frederika of Greece—the only actual Sovereign present —and two of her children, the Duke of Sparta and Princess Sophia. After their honeymoon the Count will take his bride x to a ranch which he runs in Southern Rhodesia.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28179, 18 January 1957, Page 2
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