August 6, 1898
The "passive assistance" of a Roman Catholic priest at the recent marriage of Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke Ernst Gunther of Schleswig-Holstein has caused "a great deal of discussion in the Ultramontaine press." The Cologne Volkszeitung says: "The priest committed a grave breach of faith and the Princess was guilty, by marrying according to the Protestant rite, of a deadly sin."
Duke Ernst Gunther is the brother of Empress Auguste Viktoria of Germany. The Schleswig-Holstein family is Lutheran. Princess Dorothea is Roman Catholic.
Another German newspaper, the Augsburg Post-Zeitung, opined: "The Coburg family has been guilty of another public nuisance."
I find it ironic that the Augsburg's local newspaper made such a comment, considering the major event that happened in 1530 in Augsburg at the Diet of Worms.
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