ROYAL WEDDING
ITALY AND BELGIUM
MUSSOLINI ORGANISING
GORGEOUS CEREMONY
United Tress Association—By Electric Tele-
graph—Copyright.
(.Received 19th December, 11 a.m.) EOME, 18th December.
Signor Mussolini is making a stupendous effort to organise a worthy ceremony for the Royal wedding on Bth January, 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 tho Italian colours of red, white, and green. Signor Mussolini is also organising a procession showing all the peasant costumes from the Tyrol to Sicily. Five thousand foot and four hundred horsemen aro taking part on the procession, and will be accompanied with characteristic" music and dancing. Tho procession will pass through the streets of Homo during the wedding celebrations, and will later be repeated in the provincial centres.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9
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148ROYAL WEDDING Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9
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