Monday March 2nd 1863
The princess Alexandra with all her suite arrived today. The park and the “place” before the palace, were both crowded with spectators. After waiting for more than an hour the “chaupeurs” came in sight, and we know then the pageant was approaching. In the first carriage rode the fair princess and her mother, on the back seats, in front of the Duchess with the prince of Denmark. The Count of Flandres(sic) with the other less distinguished royal personages followed. The court equifrages were decked out in the gala livery, which is read, the coachmen wearing powdered wigs and cocked hats. The princess leaves Antwerp on Thursday her marriage takes place Tuesday the 10th at Windsor. The Times “Standard” and all the journals of London are already full of advertisements for seats to see the royal procession as it passes through the city. Many of these seats will rent from ten to twenty Stg. The front of a house on the Strand rented for 1000 lb, a fortune in it self.
March 20th.
The great show is over, the princess Alexandra became Princess of Wales on Tuesday the 10th. Owing to the Queens being in such deep affliction, the marriage took place in St. Georges Chapel, Windsor; and in the afternoon the happy pair left for Osborne, Isle of Wight.
King Leopold’s present to the bride was a set of black lace, and the Duchess of Brabant’s, a white set. Rubies and emeralds, pearls and diamonds, were showered upon her, but I wish her, as I would any young bride, a greater blessing than all these baubles, I wish her married life may be even half so happy as mine. She cannot be more blessed than this.
It has been ascertained that many persons were crushed to death on Saturday when the Royal procession passed through London. In one spot seven women were found who had fallen in the crowd, and been trampled under feet.
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