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Joyous Mr. Astor decided to buy an 80-ft. yacht and to call his firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled...
...cash ($1.25) from an unknown Swedish girl. Because blue is Sweden's royal color and Princess Ingrid is passionately addicted to larkspur, a plane piled high with larkspur flew over from London to decorate the wedding church, Stockholm's 13th Century Storkyrka. Leading a concert of Danish and Swedish songs before all the wedding guests, Conductor Sven Lizell of the Stockholm Choral Society dropped dead of heart failure...
...small wreath of myrtle. She wore the lace and carefully preserved orange blossoms that her mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
After the wedding breakfast came a drive through cheering streets to the Castle of Haga where Denmark's new Crown Princess laid her bridal flowers of lilies and myrtle on her mother's grave. The Danish royal yacht Dannebrog was waiting to take them back to Denmark...
Because of his marriage, the Danish Parliament will raise his allowance from $10,512 to $26,280 a year. Princess Ingrid will get $2,452 of her own to keep herself in pocket money...