Minister Collier to
the Secretary of State.
[Extract.]
American Legation,
Madrid, March 13,
1906.
No. 72.]
Sir: I am to-day in receipt, from the ministry
of state, of a note containing the official announcement that His
Majesty the King of Spain has determined to contract marriage with
Princess Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, and requesting that I notify my
Government.
I have done so in a cable (which I hereby confirm), reading as follows:
Official announcement King’s engagement received to-day. Have
expressed congratulations of the President.
Collier.
I have already expressed the President’s congratulations in a note to the
minister of state, a copy of which I inclose.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure.]
Minister Collier to the Spanish Minister
of State.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note number 5, dated the 12th instant, informing
me that His Majesty the King has determined to contract marriage
with Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria Eugenia of
Battenberg.
I have already cabled to my Government this very pleasing
announcement, and I am directed by the President to express to His
Majesty his most hearty and sincere congratulations and his best
wishes for the prosperity, welfare, and happiness of His Majesty and
his dynasty.
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In asking your excellency to be the medium of conveyance of these
expressions as well as of my own felicitations to His Majesty, I
avail myself of this opportunity to reiterate to your excellency the
assurances of my most distinguished consideration.
