ROYAL WEDDING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22620, 7 January 1937, Page 9

ROYAL WEDDING

HOLLAND PREPARES DUKE FLIES TO HAGUE ATTITUDE OF GERMANY IGNORING THE EVENT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January f>, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 5 The Duke of Kent left for Holland at 9.35 a.m. to-day in a private aeroplane piloted by Flight-Lieuten-ant lv 11. Fielden, formerly pilot to the Duke of Windsor, in order to attend Princess Juliana's wedding to Prince Bernhard von LippeBiesterfeld. The Duke arrived safely. The Hague correspondent of the Times reports that German newspaper correspondents have been ordered to ignore the Royal wedding entirely. Glorious weather prevails and is pre- [ dieted for the wedding festivities on ! Thursday. | Queen Wilhclniina lias granted an I amnesty to a large number of prisoners, I including 1300 transgressors against the fiscal laws. Others have had their sentences reduced. The amnesty includes the mutineers on the battleship Zevcn Provincien in the Dutch East Indies in 19.33. Prince William of Wied, who before the Great War was the ruling Princo in Albania and who was to have acted as a witness to the marriage, lias not been allowed to leave Germany for Holland. CARNIVAL IN CITY ALL HOLLAND REJOICING GATHERINGS IN THE PALACE (Received January (>. 0.15 p.m.) THE HAGUE, Jan. r> This beautiful city to-night is ablaze with millions of coloured lights, and bands of students with arms linked are patrolling the streets singing and shouting the names of the Royal couple whoso marriage on Thursday has roused all Holland to rejoicing. The Duke of Kent was present at a luncheon party given by Queen Wilhelinina at which there were 250 guests. Afterward the entire party, with Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard, drove to a cinema where they privately witnessed films shot by the Prince, showing tho Princess in the Royal garden on the day they wero betrothed. Holiday incidents and scenes of the carnival taken by the Prince from a window in the Palace were also screened. Queen Wilhclniina, Princess Juliana, Prince Bernhard and 300 guests after dinner attended a gala performance at the Opera House, where tho audience roso and sang fervently the Dutch National Anthem followed bv "Deutsehland liber Alles" and the "Horst Wessel" song in which only a few voices were raised. Then came "God Save the King," whereupon tho whole audience joined in amid tremendous enthusiasm. Dr. Peter Vananrooy should have conducted, but declined when he learned that the "Horst Wessel" song was included. He said he would never play a party song directed against Jews and opponents of the Nazis' views. Captain Walther Boer, conductor of the Royal Army Military Band, conducted the anthems, after which Dr. Vananrooy took the baton. It i 6 expected that Prince Bernhard will be given the title of Prince of tho Netherlands with the rank of Royal Highness. It is believed that the honeymoon will be spent in tho Southern Tyrol.