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...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...
Just the same, when the royal train arrived at Sofia, the route from the railway station to the Alexander Nevski Cathedral was guarded by a triple line of soldiery. Police ordered all windows of houses along the way closed...
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...
After the ceremony Sofia erupted with Bulgar abandon. Public buildings were strung with electric bulbs. Men, women, children clambered like monkeys up the high iron grille of the palace gate, danced in the streets till dawn. Police did not allow the playing of the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," but revelers sang themselves hoarse with "0 Sole Mio" in Bulgarian. At the palace it was announced, next day, that Their Majesties had slipped out a back door and danced unrecognized in the streets with their subjects...
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...