THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.

Evening Star, Issue 5050, 12 May 1879, Page 3

THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.

The marriage of Her Majesty's third son, His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught with Her Royal Highness Princess Louise Margaret, third daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, was celebrated in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on Thursday March 13. The royal wedding, unlike that of the Prince of Wales, which was a public act, was a family solemnity under the direction of the Queen, who took a deep interest in the various preparations made for the due solemnisation of the nuptial contraot. The weddiDg trousseau of the royal bride was furnished by her parents, Prince and Princess Frederick Charles, from the Mode Bazaar of Messrs Gerson at Berlin. It may interest our lady readers to know that the bridal dress was made of thick white satin, the waist trimmed with lace 4in wide, the skirt also trimmed with lace, 12in deep, and bunches of myrtle. The train was 13ft long, with a rich flounce 3ft 6m wide, upon which was laid a bunch of myrtle. She wore a pearl necklace, which was a wedding gift from her illustrious and venerable uncle, King William 1., Emperor of Germany, and consisted of four strings of very fine pearls. The lace adorning her dress was manufactured in Silesia. The articles supplied to Princess Louise Margaret on this occasion consisted of a lace flounce dentelle mouchoir, fan-cover, and a bridal veil, richly decorative of real point-de-gaze lace, ornamented with flowers, crown and the Royal arms of Prussia in relief, all worked m real white lace. The order was given at the beginning of July last, and the work has been done by the hands of 300 peasant girls in the mountains of Silesia. The

dresses of the bridesmaids, eight young English ladies of rank, were composed of rich white satin, " duchesse," and silk, with wild roses, buds, and foliage ; flowers of special design, combining the emblems of England, Prussia, Scotland, and Ireland were charmingly arranged with the same! The heading consisted of wild roses England's emblem; from these depended the cornflower of Prussia, the white heather and stag-moss of Scotland, and the shamrock of Ireland. The dresses are said to have been most elegant in arrangement, artistic in design, and suitable in the minutest details to the occasion of this Royal weddin* The principal wedding gifts to the Duke of Connaught consisted of a service of silver gilt plate for the desert-table from the officers of the Royal Engineers, a corps in which His Royal Highness received his first commission ; a service of massive silver Monteith bowls, consisting of five large bowls, three of which are mounted upon silver pedestals the whole forming a graduated series for a dming-table or for the decoration of a buffet —from his brother officers of the Rifle Brigade, and valued at 500 ; guin< as an elaborate centre-pif ce for the table on the occasion < f the marriage from the London Irish Rifles • a piece of silver plate which cost L 6.000, and a oongratulatory address from Ireland ; and a l-a-uis .<me ormolu clock from the inhabitants of Bagshot, who wished to show their apprec'ation of the honor the Duke had conferred upon their little village by the selection of Bagshot as his residence. The gift from the town of Windsor to the Royal bride consisted of a diamond bracelette, having a rosette in the centre, and valued at about L2BO. The Royal residence is at Bagshot Park, Surrey.