Will Naomi Biden grab a military guard's sword to slice her wedding cake, as President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter did in her 1906 White House wedding?
On Nov. 19, President Biden’s eldest granddaughter will be married in the 19th White House wedding. The nuptials of Naomi Biden and Peter Neal on the South Lawn will probably be less raucous than the early-20th-century matching of “Princess Alice” and Rep. Nicholas Longworth .
Alice became a worldwide celebrity. In 1905, Roosevelt sent his daughter on a diplomatic voyage to the Far East with War Secretary William Howard Taft. The congressional delegation included Longworth, a wealthy playboy. He and Alice began a romance at sea. “One morning Congressman Longworth, Miss Alice’s devoted slave, presented himself attired in white flannels,” the New York World reported. Alice dared him to jump into the ship’s pool, then dived in herself, fully clothed.
The bride and groom retreated to the Blue Room for a private lunch with friends. When the big wedding cake was served, Alice exclaimed to the military guard, “Your sword, Major, your sword.” Drawing his sword, the guard “grasped the blade and thrust the pearl mounted hilt in the bride’s direction,” the Hartford Courant reported. “Without any hesitation, she took the weapon firm in her right hand and with one sharp thrust of the point into the centre of the cake cut deep into it.
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