INDIA: Nizam's Azam and Moazzam

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While the last of these details was being haggled out, Hyderabad's two princes knelt for more than 30 minutes before propped up pictures of their brides. With aching knees they rose at last. Crown Prince Azam Jah was married to Caliph's Daughter Princess Durri Chehvar, 18. Prince Moazzam Jah espoused Caliph's Cousin Princess Hadice Nilufer, 16. Both weddings were double, a civil marriage by the local British consul and a religious service by His Holiness who was said to have remarked, "Do you know I have never performed a marriage before?"

Husbands in name, Hyderabad's two princes were hustled back to their hotel after the ceremony. They will not see their wives again until a nuptial reunion and Grand Durbar is staged in Hyderabad by their potent Papa.