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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...
...make the wedding possible, last minute concessions were made by the Bulgarian Government which, three weeks ago, was still demanding that the prospective eldest heir male of their King & Queen should be reared Bulgarian Orthodox. As Princess Giovanna is Roman Catholic, the Vatican continued to insist that all her prospective children be reared Roman Catholic, finally won this point last week...
Despite repeated despatches from Sofia itself stating that under the Bulgarian Constitution the heir to the Throne must be Bulgarian Orthodox, the articles in question actually read...