London, Nov. 17.
The wedding of Prince Ludwig von Hesse, whose mother and brother were killed in an air crash near the Ostend aerodrome yesterday evening, and Miss Margaret Campbell Geddes, daughter of Sir Auckland and Lady Geddes, was held privately in St. Peters Church, in Eaton Square.
The guests included the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador in London.
The marriage, originally set for October 23, was postponed to November 20, because of the death last month of the Prince's father.
Not more than fifty guests attended the wedding., They were all dressed in mourning while the bride was attired entirely in black and carried white cornelias, There is widespread sympathy for Prince Ludwigs multiple bereavements in losing his father, mother and only brother. He thus becomes Grand Duke von Hesse—Reuter, Birth of Child in Crash Ostend, Nov. 17.
A pathetic feature of the air tragedy, near the Ostend aerodrome last night, in which the Grand Duke von Hesse and four members of his family were killed on their way from Frankfort to London, was the birth of a child to the Grand Duchess during the crash. The bodies of mother and child are now lying together in a local hospital.
All eleven occupants of the machine, which omitted Brussels because of the fog and went direct to Ostend, met their death in the disaster. They comprised three members of the crew and eight passengers, seven of whom were members of the von Hesse party, namely: the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess von Hesse, Dowager: Grand Duchess von Hesse, Ludwig and Aldenback von Hesse, children of the Prince; Baron Riedesel, friend of the Von Hesse family; and Madame Hahn, lady-in-waiting to the Grand Duchess:
The party were flying to London to attend Prince Ludwig's wedding.
Prince Ludwig and a party of friends were at Croydon awaiting the arrival of the party when news of the disaster was received. The Prince was so overcome that he had to receive attention before he was able to leave the aerodrome.
The bodies of the victims were charred, and two hours after the crash the wreckage of the plane was still burning.
An eye-witness said: "I saw the plane coming down out of the fog and hit the chimney of a brick works at a speed of about 100 m.p. One wing and one of the engines broke off, both crashing through the roof the works. The rest of the machine overturned and crashed to the ground about 50 yards further on, where it burst into flames."
The noise of the crash, heard over a considerable distance, brought crowds to the spot where gendarmes kept them back from the blazing machine, Sir Auckland Geddes was British Amíbassador to the United States from 1924.—Reuter.
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