ROYAL WEDDING
BELGIAN PRINCESS AND ITALIAN PRINCE MUSSOLINI ORGANISING CEREMONY Rome, December 18. Sjgnor Mussolini is making a stupendous effort to organise a worthy ceremony for the Royal wedding on January 8, 1930. He is sending a magnificently decorated special train from Italy to Brussels to fetch the Princess, her parents, and her ladies-in-waiting. Hundreds of workmen are busy painting the train and hanging the carriages with tapestries in the Italian colours of red, white and greem Signor Mussolini is also organising a procession showing all the peasant costumes from the Tyrol to Sicily. Five thousand foot and four hundred horsemen will take part in the procession, and will be accompanied with characteristic music and dancing. The procession will pass through the streets of Rome during the wedding celebrations, and will later be repeated in the provincial centres.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 7
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138ROYAL WEDDING Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 7
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