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Show WEDS KING GEORGE'S COUSIN 5 Ask 1 . I . .. v - . in the first marriage of royalty since the outbreak of the European war, Countess Nadejda1 Torby, twenty years old, daughter of Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch of Russia, became be-came the wife of Prince George of Battenberg, a cousin of King George of England. Two ceremonies were performed, the first according to the bride's faith in the Russian embassy chapel and the other in the chapel royal, SL James palace. King George, Queen Mary and Dowager Dow-ager Queen Alexandra witnessed the wedding; also the duke and duchess of Connaught, Princess Patricia of Con-naught Con-naught and ex-King Manuel of Portugal. Por-tugal. The bridegroom is a lieutenant in the British navy, serving on the battle cruiser New Zealand. He is twenty-four twenty-four years old and a nephw of Princess Prin-cess Henry of Battenberg, King George's youngest aunt. The bride is the daughter of Grand Duke Michaelo-vitch, Michaelo-vitch, a cousin of the czar of Russia. |