Marriage Banns Signed Ahead of Russian Imperial Wedding

All pictures (c) Russian Imperial Chancellery.

On Thursday, 5 August, Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini signed their marriage banns. The couple's engagement was announced in January of this year. George and Victoria will celebrate their religious wedding at Saint Petersburg on 1 October. As reported exclusively by Histories Royales today, the imperial couple will be civilly married at Moscow on 24 September.