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Big Day For
Duchy
London, August 18. - Many of the 300,000 inhabitants of the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxemburg were up all night decorating their houses and streets with flowers and colored lights.
For yesterday 600 guests saw Princess Alix. (21), youngest of the five children of Luxemburg's ruler (the Grand Duchess Charlotte) married to Prince Antoine de Ligne (25), son of the Belgian Am- bassador to Delhi.
lt was the Continent of Europe's biggest wedding since the war.
Every town and village had its own festivities with the ringing of church bells and dancing in the
streets.
The bride drove to Luxemburg Cathedral from the royal castle over 400 yards of thick red carpet.
As the wedding, bells pealed out a formation of Belgian jet fighters, from the squadron in which the bridegroom serves, flew over-
head.
At the reception the guests ate caviare, pate de f'oie gras, Scotch salmon. Ardennes ham and 500 chickens from the royal farms.