Culmination Of Childhood Romance
Australian Press Association.
BRUSSELS. Oct.- 23. "3Iy drcam has come true," said tlie twenty-fivc-year-old Prince Umberto after the King of the Belgiaus liad given his consent to liis inarriage with Princess 3Iarie Jese. The Princess, dressed in white, radiantly happy, awaited her lover 111 the reception room of Castle Laeken. , A fefw foi-mal words were spoken. Tlien the Princess held out lier hand for a kiss and hcr engagement ring which will one day make her Queeu of Italy. 31ean while, in the adjoining room, a Court official wrote out an official notice of the betrotlial, which will be formally announcecl to-niglit at a dinner in the castlo. Tho betiothal ceremony is intcnded to be quielly informal. The Prince travclled iucognito, but tbe iicojde of Brussels sensecl the romance and tliousaiids cheered as he drove to meet his betrotlied. The mai*l'iage is the culniination of a romance of twelve yeans ago, when Blarie Jose was in Florelice learning ltalian as a schoolgirl.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 227, 25 October 1929, Page 7
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