People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — From Princess to Empress. [ARTICLE]

From Princess to Empress.

Princess Alix's wedding recalls the fact that it is over forty years since any princess became an empress on her wedding day. In 1853 Napoleon 111 married Eugenie and in 1854 Francis Joseph of Austria, espoused Princess Elisabeth. Both empresses reigned supreme as queens of beauty and fashion an l both are now broken ’down by the deaths of tlielr only sons -under sad circumstances.