Word: bulgarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner did the happy couple board the Bulgarian royal yacht Tsar Ferdinand at Brindisi than they were swept into a hurricane which cut them off from all communication for 24 hours, made it impossible for the chef to prepare a wedding banquet, later made them seek shelter in an island harbor...
Escorted by a squadron of Turkish torpedo boats, the Tsar Ferdinand finally dropped anchor off the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Burgas. With a cross in one hand, an icon in the other, the Metropolitan Hilarion ("the Merry One") was first to welcome Their Majesties home. On the wharf a comely company of Bulgarian maidens poured water on the feet of Tsar Boris, a similar group of young men sprinkled his bride, now Tsaritza Ivana, as a hope that their lives might be as smooth as the surface of water...
...royal train sped from Burgas to Sofia, word was flashed round the world that while passing through the village of Manola, the royal car was fired at by unidentified assassins?seven shots, which wounded one Bulgarian soldier, splintered the rifle stock of another...
...Hovering above the royal party," cabled a "correspondent, "were 14 airplanes in a formation making the initial letter of Giovanna's name in Bulgarian script...
When the marriage was first proposed Bulgarian officials mollified the Vatican by agreeing to consider the Roman Catholic wedding in Assisi the real wedding, promised that the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox ceremony in Sofia would be merely a service of benediction. In Sofia last week the Patriarch Stefan talked differently...