Posted by Cynthia on October 6, 2015, 10:34 pm, in reply to "Re: story "
Mark Kerr (whose wife? sister? was LIW to Princess Victoria of Hesse) wrote:
"At this moment she received the full bag of rice, which the Emperor had carried, in her face, followed by the satin shoe. Casting dignity aside she caught the shoe, and leaning over the back of the carriage hit the Emperor on the head with it, at the same time telling him exactly what she thought of him, which so over-came him that he stood still in the middle of the road shrieking with laughter."
Apparently the tsar caused his detectives a bit of concern by running through the crowd, leaving them in his dust. Sounds like a fun wedding!