YIKES!!!...The Unfortunate Bride...
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 4:17 pm
I found this rummaging through a book where some on the Unusual Skyfalls are based from ...
The wedding day or Princess Maria del Pozzo della Cisterna, who married Amadeo, the Duke D'Aosta, the son of the king of Italy, in Turin on May 30th, 1867, was marred by these events:
¶ Her wardrobe mistress hanged herself.
¶ The palace gatekeeper cut his throat.
¶ The colonel leading the wedding procession collapsed from sunstroke.
¶ The stationmaster was crushed to death under the wheels of the honeymoon train.
¶ The king's aide was killed bya fall from his horse.
¶ The best man shot himself.
The couple did not live happily ever after. (Roger L. Williams, Gaslight and Shadow, pp. 156-57)
The wedding day or Princess Maria del Pozzo della Cisterna, who married Amadeo, the Duke D'Aosta, the son of the king of Italy, in Turin on May 30th, 1867, was marred by these events:
¶ Her wardrobe mistress hanged herself.
¶ The palace gatekeeper cut his throat.
¶ The colonel leading the wedding procession collapsed from sunstroke.
¶ The stationmaster was crushed to death under the wheels of the honeymoon train.
¶ The king's aide was killed bya fall from his horse.
¶ The best man shot himself.
The couple did not live happily ever after. (Roger L. Williams, Gaslight and Shadow, pp. 156-57)
