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^can anyone translate what he's saying to those ladies?
Thanks for the information McAfan. I thought Marina Doria was Italian.
I need photo ID help! I saw this photo over at The Glittering Royals MB:
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9169/0000431429xp3.jpg
At first I figured the man next to Marie Jose (on the left) was Umberto, but then I saw he was in the middle behind Elisabeth. So who is the man next to Marie Jose? He looks an awful lot like Umberto but I know Umberto didn't have any brothers so could he have been a look-a-like cousin?
Yes, maybe he is Prince Alexander...(Happened to see this question although it has been put a long time ago):
Could this person next to Queen Marie-Jose be Prince Alexander of Jugoslavia,
husband to Princess Maria-Pia, sitting on the left side of Queen Elisabeth?
http://artroots.com/brigitte/gifs7/mariapiasavoy1934-10.jpg
He's not Prince Charles, as was suggested.
Yes, maybe he is Prince Alexander...
And who is the woman seated at the left of Queen Elisabeth?
It could be Queen Elisabeth's 80th birthday celebration in 1956.
yes, they were far cousins, and their wives were aunt and nephew; but the relationship between the two Kings were very very bad...Carlo Felice tried in 1822 to change the succession law to make his nephew Maria Beatrice (wife of duke Francesco IV of Modena) able to became Queen, and in order to exclude the hated Carlo Alberto from the succession because of his liberal ideas.
At least some of them...but I don't think all his descedants are irresolute...Carlo Alberto a.k.a "Re Tentenna" ( the irresolute King ). Looks like his descendants have taken a lot after him...
It was used to say "Francia o Spagna, purchè se magna", "France or Spain, provided that we can eat"...It's well known that the Savoy Dukes and Kings every time beginned a war on a side and ended it on the other one...
From Wiki:you had mentioned that the next heir to the throne was none the other than, the duke of aosta....but to come to think of it, didnt his ancestor the first duke (and sometime king of spain) married a non royal.....i take it that he had the permisson of his father the king for such a marriage ?
Maria Vittoria's mother, Countess Louise de Mérode, granddaughter of the Prince de Rubempré and of the Princess van Grimberghe, belonged to one of Belgium's premier noble houses, and had married the Principe della Cisterna in 1846 in a double wedding with her younger sister Antoinette, who married Charles III, the reigning Prince of Monaco.
Amedeo was in love with Maria Vittoria, and he wanted to marry her; his father VE II soon opposed, because she was not a royal and because he wished a royal princess as a wife for Amedeo; btw he gave his permission to the marriage, for two reasons:you had mentioned that the next heir to the throne was none the other than, the duke of aosta....but to come to think of it, didnt his ancestor the first duke (and sometime king of spain) married a non royal.....i take it that he had the permisson of his father the king for such a marriage ?
Well, in the very same period of the wars between Sardinia/Italy and Austria, King Carlo Alberto was married to Archduchess Maria Teresa of Austria, her brother Archduke Rainer was married to CA's sister Maria Francesca, and their children Vittorio Emanuele and Archduchess Maria Adelaide married...Moreover, the son of VE and MA was destined to marry Archduchess Mathilde of Austria, daughter of Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, if only she would not have died before the marriage...i can not helping thinking.....isnt it strange how history produces the most unlikely bedfellows.......a niece of the prince and princess of monaco, marries into the very same family, where a generation or so earlier, tried to force the then prince of monaco to hand over his principality over to the kingdom of sardinia !!!