INTERESTING EVENT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 15

INTERESTING EVENT

SPANISH PRINCE MARRIES

KING ALFONSO'S ABSENCE

"All the world loves a lover!"

"Never was this saying more enthusiastically emphasised than when the Prince of the Asturias, King Alfonso's eldest son, and Senorita San-pcdro-Ocejo were united in marriage," states:the- Lausanne- correspondent of the "Daily Mail."

, It was the- first, day of summer,-but the only outward signs of this were the radiant faces of the happy couple and the almost delirious joy of the vast cosmopolitan -crowd, which besieged the town hall and the Roman Catholic Church, where the- two ceremonies were held.

Bain fell heavily all day, a happy omen according to Swiss belief, but this did not deter thousands Of people of all classes and nationalities' from waiting hours in the streets to see the Prince and his lovely Cuban bride. "GLAD IT IS OVER." Before ho left for the Town Hall the j Prince said:."l shall be happy when! this is over. It has been a grdat strain to both of us; but today the future seems to spread out in a wide vista-of happiness before us." The civil ceremony was of the utmost simplicity. Barely sixty people were in the room at the Town Hall when the Prinec and Senorita Sanpedro-Ocejo arrived, accompanied by many beautiful women members of her family. The Prince wore a bluo serge suit with the Order of the Golden Fleece. ' It was noticed that the official act of Marriage bore the name of the "Prince of the Asturias," whereas the Prince signed the -register as "Alfonso do Bqurbon." The witnesses were the Duke of Almadova, Senorita Vivian Cornill, Senor Arguilles, and Senor Viola Navarro, j TWO NATIONS' COLOURS. It was with difficulty that the crowd was kept back as the couple entered their motor-car to return to the' Hotel Meurice to change for the religious cere-" mony. But it was even more difficult for the Prince's brido to enter the Roman Catholic Church for this ceremony an hour later. When the spectators saw the lovely girl, resplendent in her beautiful gown of ivory satin there was a rush which almost overwhelmed the police. Thero was. even worse disorder? when the Prince arrived, ana for a moment ho was in danger of being carried away from the church by the crowd. He eventually entered the church and joined his bride at the altar. Everywhere there were white lilies bound with the Spanish and Cuban colours. . . / . : '• ■ . While the priest, in the course of the service, dolivered a long homily on the sanctity of marriage, there were constant interruptions from the crowd outside, which at one time threatened to break down the door of the church. The priest joined the hands of the couple as a sign of their unity, and then in solemn tones pronounced the Benediction. The organ crashed out the thrilling notes of : the wedding march from "Lohengrin, "and the ceremony was over, i At the Hotel Mourice afterwards the Prince gavo a message to the British people: "The only cloud in my happi' ness today is the absence of my august father and mother. / But I am sure that in time these family misunderstandings will disappear." , The Prince and Princess then left for Evian-los-Bains, on the French shoro of Lake Geneva, whore ;'part of the honeymoon was spent.