Arts/Culture

Peru’s Own Royal Wedding

Alessandra de Osma and Prince Christian of Hanover. Source: Andina

Amid the political maelstrom in Congress and the presidency, Lima was treated to a very different event this weekend —  the glamorous wedding of Alessandra de Osma to Prince Christian of Hanover, which will be the talk of social circles for years to come.

The wedding was held at noon on Friday at the baroque 17th century San Pedro church in downtown Lima, where the streets surrounding the church were closed from traffic and baskets of white flowers hung from the lamp posts.  The church is only a few steps away from the 18th century Casa Goyeneche  on Jiron Ucayali, from where the bride walked with her father, Felipe de Osma Berckemeyer.

The religious ceremony was followed by lunch at the elite Club Nacional on the Plaza San Martin, and cocktails in the evening at the Berckemeyer house in Miraflores, one of the few remaining grand houses on Av. Arequipa, built by the bride’s great grandparents in the early 1930s when the area was just being developed.

Alessandra de Osma walks to San Pedro with her father, Felipe de Osma. Her young sister-in-law Princess Alexandra, helps carry the train. Source: Andina
The Berckemeyer house on Av. Arequipa in Miraflores.

The star-studded guest list included the groom’s father Ernst August, Prince of Hanover, his mother Chantal Hochuli, English model Kate Moss,  friends and relatives with titles from the old houses of Europe, and a few titles dusted off among Lima’s elite.   Also part of the weddng party was the groom’s half-sister Princess Alexandra, daughter of his father Ernst August and Princess Caroline of Monaco.

The three days of celebrations began Thursday with cocktails at Astrid & Gaston’s restaurant in the colonial Moreyra house in San Isidro, and are to continue on Saturday with a party at the Museo de Osma in Barranco, a national heritage building built in 1906 as a summer home for the De Osma family and which now exhibits one of the city’s most important private collections of colonial and pre-hispanic art.

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