FRENCH ROYALIST

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 8

FRENCH ROYALIST

A B RILLT ANT AIA R R TAG E SHIPLOAD OF GUESTS (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London, April S. The Times’ Palermo correspondent sates that a splendour hardly surpassahle had they been heirs to a reigning house marked the wedding of Prince Henry, son of tho Due de Guise. Pretender to the French Throne, with Princess Isabel Orleans P.raganza, who is a distant, cousin. T here could not haw been a more Tirilliant scene. The guests were distinguished and the Ceremony most imposcing. No fewer than SOO French Royalists arrived in a specially chartered liner. By special permission of the Pope, the Cardinal Archbishop of Palermo officiated. Richly-dressed quests throngled the cathedral interior, which was bedecked with antique tapestries, bejewelled vessels, and rich vestments. Outside there were cordons of troops in the uniform of tlie Fascist, militia. Luncheon for 700 guests was served in tlie grounds of the Palace Daumale, centuries-old Palermo hoime of the Orleans family.