Royal Guests and Relatives gathered to celebrated the Wedding of Princess Marie Cécile of Prussia and Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin on this day in 1965, 60 years ago, which was the first Royal Wedding held in Berlin since 1913.
Princess Marie Cécile of Prussia, daughter of the Prince of Prussia and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, married Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, following a Civil Ceremony in the City Hall of Schmargendorf. The couple had three children before their divorce in 1989, two years before he married her widowed sister-in-law.
Princess Marie Cecile of Prussia, great- granddaughter of the last German Kaiser, was married here today in a civil ceremony to Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg, a 29-year old agri- cultural expert. The Princess, 23, is a daugh- ter of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, oldest surviving son of the former German Crown Prince and the present head of the House of Hohenzollern. Today’s ceremony was the first marriage of a Hohenzol- lern in Berlin since 1913. Some 700 spectators, many of them old women, gathered in front of the city hall of Schmargendorf in a residential suburb to cheer the couple and serenade them with a pre-World War I ditty whose text says, “The Kaiser is a nice man and he lives in Berlin.”
The highlight of the celebra- tions will be at noon tomorrow in a Protestant wedding service in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memoriai Church, a landmark in down- town West Berlin. The police have already been alerted to help prevent traffic jams on the fashionable Kurfürsten- damm and the busy Tauentzien- strasse, two streets leading to the church. The tall, dark-haired Princess wore a tweed coat in a grayish pink and a small fur hat for today’s ceremony. Tomorrow she will appear in full splendor with a Hohenzollern coronet and a floor-length white wed- ding gown, made by Uli Richter, Berlin’s top fashion designer. The couple will live in Africa. The Duke is a development con- sultant in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Princess Marie Cécile of Prussia wore the Prussian Meander Tiara.
Royal Guests and Relatives included the Prince of Prussia and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna, great-aunt Princess Victoria Louise, Duchess of Brunswick, and Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duchess Leonida of Russia among Royalty and Nobility from across Germany.
On the evening before the Wedding, the Prussian Royal Family held a Concert at Schloss Charlottenburg.
