Silver Wedding

King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine celebrated the 25th anniversary of their wedding day at Frendensborg Castle, 20 miles to the north of Copenhagen.

Among the brilliant assembly invited to the castle were the King and Queen of Norway and Prince Olaf, Norwegian Crown Prince; the ex-Crown Princess of Germany, bister of Queen Alexandrine, and her children; Prince Vlademer, King Christian's brother; the Duke and Princess of Cumberland.

Later in the day the King and Queen motored into Copenhagen to receive at the Amalienborg Palace he congratulations of various deputations from their loyal subjects. Some of these loyal subjects had wished to buy the King and Queen a summer palace on the island of Funen, but King Christian, hearing of the plan, suggested that such a gift would hardly be in keeping with ;he times, and that anyway he had more castles than he could afford to maintain.

King Christian, who is 52, married Princess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg on April 26,1898. He ascended he throne on the death of his father, Frederik VIII, in 1912. The King Is a great lover of sport, particularly ice yachting and horseback riding. Mounted on his favorite steed, he is a familiar figure to all classes of people who see him almost daily riding in the capital.