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Lovely to see an actual horse and carriage being used on the wedding day.
I'm looking forward to better pictures. Everything seems to be done in great style, with the carriages, the incredibly beautiful cathedral and the bride looked beautiful, even though one can't yet appreciate the details of the gown. I'm curious about the tiara. It's certainly not the diamond button tiara which the mother of the groom and most of his aunts wore. So it's probably from her own family, though it can't be ruled out that there's still another tiara in the groom's family. Maybe one from Princess Alicia?
The family must still have this tiara that belonged to the Bourbon Parma and that was worn by a daughter-in-law of Ines at her wedding in 2007.
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Infanta Alicia sold the set of sapphires, and from the set of rubies Teresa still has some pieces, but others were auctioned. At the auction of the Parma Bourbon jewels, two tiaras were also auctioned.
Wow, that Bourbon Parme diadem is one of the most elegant around, I must say.
The groom's family is in Palermo. Pedro has been received by the vice president of the regional government, and Sofía has been appointed lady of the Congregation of Noble Ladies of Giardinello.
https://www.italpress.com/donna-sof...alermo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Today the family visited the "Boccone del Povero" soup kitchen in Palermo. On the occasion of the wedding, this organization and another in Naples have received a donation to provide meals for a month.
https://www.italpress.com/palermo-d...povero/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
There does seem to be a crowd gathered which is interesting since it's in Italy and not Spain.
In the Hola! link you can see a photo of the Duchess of Calabria. Is she perhaps wearing the diamond buttons of the button tiara as brooches on her dress?
I am very surprised because no member of the Spanish Royal Family has attended this wedding, I expected to see Infanta Elena or Infanta Cristina, even Queen Sofia. They have always been very close to the Spanish Royal Family.
Not even a lot of Orleans relatives it seems, or they managed to stay away from the photo cameras. We only know that the duke of Anjou was there.
One of the bridal girls may be youngest sister of the groom, 6-year-old Maria.