THE AGA KHAN MARRIES FRENCH GIRL IN MOSQUE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18939, 9 December 1929, Page 1

THE AGA KHAN MARRIES FRENCH GIRL IN MOSQUE.

Her Trousseau Cost £8000; Freedom Of City Conferred On Princely Couple (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received December 9, 11.30 a.m.)

PARIS, December 8. Dense crowds of curious people were present in the environs of Aix-les-Bains Down Hall for the wedding of H.R.H. the Aga Khan and Mile. Carron in the presence of a record gathering of journalists and photographers who. during the last fortnight have given Mile. Carron no peace. She carried herself with great dignity,

lOOKiny LnurTinriy 111 u uuz.z.iiuy yun/u m which emerald and turquoise predominated. It is understood that her trousseau cdst £BOOO. She remains a Catholic. The Grand Imam of the Paris Mosque insists that there is nothing irregular in the Aga marrying one whose religion recognises one Divinity. The Imam later conducted a religious ceremony. The Mayor, who performed the civil ceremony, conferred the freedom'of the city on the princely couple.

MYSTERY SURROUNDS ROMANCE OF PRINCE.

Reports and denials of lI.H. «.he Prince Aga Khan’s engagement to Mile Carron—a handsome brune te, thirty-one years of age, who formerly had a dressmaking business in Paris—have been frequent during the past few months. The Aga Khan is recognised ..s their spiritual head by the Moslems of India —about 70,000,000 people. On September 29 the “ Daily Express ” published the following statement from Mile Carron. former Parisian dressmaker and daughter of a Paris hotel employee: “ I am going to marry the Prince Aga Khan at Aix-les Bains on November 20.” On the same day the “ Daily Express ” ub lished a denial from the Aga Khan that he had a fiancee. These two mystifying statements, issued at Aix-les-Bains made ..he French Press excited, and many ] ts of ink were spilled in an at tempi, +*> solve the mystery of the future intea tions" of Prince Aga Klian and Ilka Carron. The Mohammedan leader, who left his hotel at Aix that morning without •fiillllllllllllllflUI!llll!llll!ll!III!IlIili!!IIIIIII!I!!!!lll!n!IIUfIlltlllllIU!!niI!flIiniimi

giving any forwarding address, declared positively that he was not betrothed. “It is just a cock-and-bull story, . .d if I had any intention of becoming engaged I should not have acted in the way it has been reported,” Prin 'e Aga Khan indignantly told the “ Dailv Express.” “ I have no fiancee,” he said to the “ Matin.” Mile Carron positively declared on the otjier hand, that the prince had asked for her hand, that she hau ccepted his offer, and that thev would have a fashionable marriage at the Aix Mairie on November 20. Mile Carron formerly had a dressmaking shop in the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris. On 6, however, all doubts were set at rest in a statement by the Aga Khan to a “Daily Express” correspondent. “ I have refused to discuss my intentions until now because I had not made any definite decision.” his Highness said, “ but the marriage is now decided upon. It will take place on December 4, and my friend, Henri Clerc, Mayor of Aix, will tie the bond. ’ Mile Carron, who accompanied the Aga Khan to Aix, smilingly confirmed this news, but refused to add any. further details.