Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — WEDDING OF A QUEEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WEDDING OF A QUEEN.

Wllhelmina of Holland and Dnk* Henry Are Married. In The Hague, before the altar of the Groote Kerke at noon Thursday, Holland’s girl queen looked up into the eyes of Dqjte Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwer-in and vowed to love, honor and obey him as long ns she lives. The troth of the royal lovers was plighted in the presence of a radiant assemblage'of princes, envoys, soldiers and statesmen and the whole entourage of Wilhelmina’s court. It was not an elaborate Ceremonial. Old Pastor Van der Viler read the same lines that unite the humblest of the queen’s subjects, the young couple made the sums vows, and at the end the prince enfolded his queen in bis arms and kissed her.

It took only ten minutes for Wilhelmina to share her throne with the man of her choice and to give to the Dutch kingdom a strong and manly co-sovbreign. But for tiie*' enthusiasm of the populace and the brilliance of the assemblage that gathered within the portals of the church there was little to show that this wedding was a royal union. There was a sincerity about the whole affair that is sometimes lacking upon similar occasions. The happiness that shone from the eyes of both the queen and the duke betokened that the marriage was a union of two lovers, not a state alliance for political convenience, and to thin may be attributed the unprecedented spirit with which the homeloving Dutch celebrated the nuptials. They have forgotten their disappointment over her choice of a German prince, in the knowledge of the sincerity of her attachment for him. The civil marriage which preceded the wedding at the church took place at 11:15 o’clock.

WILHELMINA AND HER HUSBAND.