- • "Yorkshire Gazette" 29 Dec 1849, page 5:
Marriage in High Life.
Florence, October 18.
The nuptials of Lady Stewart Bruce, widow of Sir Stewart Bruce, Bart., of Dublin Castle, Downhill, county of Londonderry, and of Bernard Ernest Jule de Koetteritz, Colonel in the Imperial Guard (des Chasseurs) of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, son of the late General de Koetteritz, of Leipsic, Saxony, were solemnized on Thursday, the 18th ult., at the villa of his Excellency Sir George Hamilton, in the presence of a numerous circle of their friends, who, after the ceremony, proceeded to the residence of the bride and bride-groom, where an elegant dejeuner a la fourchette was served to about thirty. The bride wore a dress of bleu celeste glacee, trimmed with flounces of the richest Brussels lace; bonnet and matelet of the same lace. Nothing could exceed the gaiety and happiness of the party on the occasion.
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