I've been to some strange weddings over the years, but none matches what happened at the Princess Maria del Pozzo della Cisterna's marriage to Amadeo, duke of Aosta (and son of the king of Italy) on May 30th, 1867. On the day of Princess Maria and Duke Amadeo's wedding:
- Her page (e.g., wardrobe mistress) hanged herself.
- The gatekeeper of the palace where the wedding took place, slit his throat (possibly because he was in love with the page?). Slitting your own throat cannot be a cakewalk. But the gatekeeper did it, successfully.
- The Colonel who led the wedding procession, collapsed with a "sun stroke," or heat exhaustion, and died.
- After the marriage ceremony, the station manager was crushed beneath the wheels of the honeymoon train as it was leaving.
- One of the king's advisers fell off his horse and died immediately.
- The best man, presumably after witnessing all of this f**ked up stuff, shot himself.
- Not long after the marriage ceremony, The Princess discovered her new husband was a degenerate philanderer with an eye for the gals. When she complained to his dad, the King of Italy, the King told her to pound sand.
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