Wittelsbacher wedding: Sophie-Alexandra falls over at the wedding with Ludwig Prince of Bavaria

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IThe wedding of Ludwig Prince of Bavaria and his bride Sophie-Alexandra began on Saturday in Munich’s Theatinerkirche – around five months after the civil wedding. The excitement surrounding the event was obviously too much for the bride.

Sophie-Alexandra fell over during the wedding on Saturday, a spokesman for the Wittelsbach administration confirmed. But after a drink she was fine again. When the 33-year-old then left the church at the side of her newly wed husband, she beamed happily.

The groom – great-great-grandson of the last Bavarian king Ludwig III. – had appeared early in the morning with his mother Beatrix. The 33-year-old bride arrived shortly before the wedding ceremony, all in white, in a long lace dress, holding a bouquet of lilies of the valley. Sophie-Alexandra was accompanied by flower children. Some of them also wore the long, delicate bridal veil.

Munich Archbishop and Cardinal Reinhard Marx welcomed the bride to Odeonsplatz, after which she moved into the magnificent baroque church alongside her father Dorus Evekink – to the sounds of the Bavarian anthem and the ringing of bells.

Around 1,000 guests attended the Wittelsbach wedding, including many relatives and representatives of well-known families such as the Esterhazy, Habsburg, Saxe-Coburg, Fugger and Liechtenstein families. Politicians like Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) were also there.

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The Wittelsbachers were first for Napoleon to become kings of Bavaria, then they were against Napoleon in order to be able to remain kings, said the CSU politician on Saturday in Munich. Söder spoke of a certain “smoothness” of the former ruling family. “Maybe that has been transferred to the genes of today’s politicians,” joked Söder before the wedding began.

The Wittelsbachs, who were the Bavarian dynasty until the end of the monarchy in 1918, were “ordinary majesties”, very artistic and not warlike, emphasized Bavaria’s head of government. The wedding builds on a “beautiful tradition” and is “a beautiful day for all of us”.

After the wedding, Franz Duke of Bavaria, head of the House of Wittelsbach, invites you to a reception at Nymphenburg Palace.

The groom from the Wittelsbach family is the great-grandson of the last King of Bavaria, Ludwig III. He studied law and is, among other things, a member of the board of the Nymphenburg Aid Foundation. His bride is a political and criminal scientist from a Dutch-Canadian family. Both are involved in development aid.