Royal romances of to-day . on of the Nicholas and Princess Elena, by inatten-tion, or because it had been omitted to informthem, entered the Quirinal from the stairs of hon-our and found only the Mayor of Rome who hadcome to assist at the marriage. Happily thePrince of Naples had witnessed this scene from thewindow of the Palace. He ran immediately torelieve their perplexity and escorted Prince Nich-olas and his own Princess to the Queens apart-ment. When the time of the ceremony arrived. CountGianotti took the head of the cortege. Behind theKing and the Queen walked Prince Nich
Royal romances of to-day . on of the Nicholas and Princess Elena, by inatten-tion, or because it had been omitted to informthem, entered the Quirinal from the stairs of hon-our and found only the Mayor of Rome who hadcome to assist at the marriage. Happily thePrince of Naples had witnessed this scene from thewindow of the Palace. He ran immediately torelieve their perplexity and escorted Prince Nich-olas and his own Princess to the Queens apart-ment. When the time of the ceremony arrived. CountGianotti took the head of the cortege. Behind theKing and the Queen walked Prince Nicholas andPrincess Elena, the Duke of Oporto and PrincessLaetitia, Prince Victor Napoleon and PrincessHelena of Aosta, the Duke of Aosta and the Dow-ager Duchess of Genoa, Prince Mirko and theDuchess Isabel of Genoa, the Count of Turin andPrincess Anna, sister of Princess Helena, and thenthe Civil and Military houses of the sovereigns. Monseigneur Auzine brought a silver veil thatthe Duke of Aosta, the Count of Turin, Prince. Queen Elena of Italy 245 Mirko and Prince Harageorgevitch, to-day Kingof Servia, unfolded and kept over the bride andbridegroom during the whole ceremony. After the ceremony Elena was more than evernervous and deeply moved; her olive skin grew ex-quisitely white, almost like alabaster. The sun,which up to that moment had loitered behindclouds, suddenly broke through the misty screen,suffusing the whole city in a glorious fulsomelight. The bells of the American Church in Romenearby, began to chime the Wedding March fromLohengrin, and from the great Roman populacegathered in the streets near the Palace went up atumultuous cheer. Thus propitiously began themarried life of the most romantic Royal couple ofthat time in Europe. To compensate for their all-too-brief Victor Emmanuel decided that their honey-moon should be protracted, and far from the eyesof the curious. To accomplish this they went atonce to the distant isles of Greece, to the roman
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