GORGEOUS DISPLAY
ROYAL WEDDING CEREMONY,
ITALIAN AND BELGIAN HOUSES.
(Received 10 a.m.) December 18,
Signor Mussolini is making a stupendous effort to organise a worthy ceremony for the Eoyhl wedding on January 8 of Crown Prince Humbert, of Italy, and Princess Marie Jose, of Belgium. He is sending a magnificently decorated special train from Italy to Brussels to fetch the Princess, her parents and ladies-in-waiting. Hundreds of workmen are busy painting the train and hanging the carriages with tapestries in the Italian colours of red, white and green. ■Signon. Mussolini is also organising a procession showing all the peasant costumes from Tyrol to Sicily. Five thousand foot and 40.0 horsemen arc taking part in the procession, which will be accompanied by characteristic music and dancing, and will pass through the streets'of Rome during the wedding celebrations. It will later be (repeated in the provincial centres.
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1929, Page 7
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