ROYAL WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 7

ROYAL WEDDING

LEOPOLD AND ASTRID

CEREMONY IN STOCKHOLM

TO BE FOLLOWED BY SECOND IN BRUSSELS.

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) STOCKHOLM, 4th November. To-day's wedding of Princess Astrid to Prince Leopold of Belgium promises to bo most brilliant. Four kings are here—King Gustaf of Sweden, King Albert of Belgium, King Haakon of Norway, and King Christian of Denmark, with their queens and sons and daughters. Although no member of the British Royal Family will be present at the civil ceremony here, Prince Henry will attend the religious eercmony in Brussels next week. The wedding will be followed by a procession in open carriages, the bridal couple being in the gold State coach. I The scene last night in the snow-clad city was wonderful. All the streets and public buildings were illuminated, and branches of fir trees were used plentifully for decorations, while in the central places stood iron braziers and flaming torches. Princess Astrid's presents include a diadem of magnificent gems from the King and Queen of Belgium. After to-day's ceremony the couple will separate awhile, because while Sweden regards it as binding, the Belgian people do not consider the couple married until the ceremony is performed in the Eoman Catholic Church. Prince Leopold and his parents, therefore, will depart late to-night for Gothenburg, en route to Ostend. Princess Astrid and her .mother also will leave, but by another route, travelling to Malmo, where (hey will embark on a Swedish cruiser for Antwerp. There Prince Leopold will meet Princess Astrid and escort her to Brussels.