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...with the dark-eyed Spanish girl King Baudouin picked for their queen. When the 30-year-old king met her a year ago-reportedly at a Swiss cocktail party to introduce him to the very eligible 24-year-old Infanta Doña Pilar of Spain-Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, was the unmarried one of the wealthy Marqués de Casa Riera's seven children, and busying herself with churchgoing, charitable works and formidably chaperoned visits to the beaches and tennis courts near San Sebastian. Baudouin took her on a tour...
...Tears. "Long Live the King, Long Live the Queen," roared the throngs as Baudouin and his bride went to the throne room of the Palace of Brussels for the civil-marriage ceremony prescribed by Belgian law. An estimated 150 million watched the pageant on a Europe-wide TV hookup. Fabiola was nervous. When the 20-foot train of her mink-trimmed wedding gown (designed by Balenciaga and executed in his own Madrid apartment with all the secrecy of a new-car prototype in Detroit) caught on a chair, she came close to tears. Proud and protective in his lieutenant general...
...streets to the 13th century Gothic church of St. Gudule. The church was hung with scarlet draperies, ancient tapestries and 150,000 Spanish violets. In the ranks of honor, with the royalty and the beribboned ambassadors of 67 nations, sat six Congolese army officers.* As they entered the church, Fabiola once again almost tripped over her train, but this time Baudouin straightened it out himself and led his bride down the great center aisle to the altar. After the ceremony, cannon boomed, bells pealed, and a thousand doves spiraled upward into the dark, wintry skies...
Married. Baudouin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Marie Gustave of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 30, King of the Belgians; and Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, gentle daughter of Spain's Marqués of Casa Riera; both for the first time; in Brussels (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Last week Fabiola let her family in on a secret, flew to Paris with her mother, and went on to Belgium. At week's end in Brussels, the secret was revealed to the world when King Baudouin announced his engagement to Fabiola de Mora. Madrid society gasped. "Astounding!" cried one count in clipped accents and added, "Are you absolutely sure it's Fabiola?" One of her friends said loyally, "She is very devout, very Spanish, just what foreigners think most Spanish girls are like-not like the new generation." Generalissimo Franco wired King Baudouin his congratulations...