People, Oct. 3, 1955

Names make news. Last week these names made this news: On the palace-lined canals of Venice, thousands of Venetians cheered and waved handkerchiefs as a procession of black, gold-trimmed gondolas bore 300 blue bloods (including 48 princes and princesses, 60 counts and countesses, dozens of barons, a scattering of dukes and duchesses) to the tiny 16th century San Sebastiano Church, where pretty, Rome-born Princess Virginia Ira Fürstenberg, 15, married suave, Madrid-born Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe Langenburg, 31.

When the bride, lovingly nicknamed "Princess Tiger Eyes" by the prince, arrived late at the altar, the...

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