Word: aldobrandini
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...budgeted for. Still "it is rare that a mother gets the pleasure of marrying her own son," said Baronne Alix de Rothschild last week as, in her capacity as mayor of the little Norman village of Reux, she prepared to wed her son David, 31, to Italian Heiress Olimpia Aldobrandini, 18. After the public town-hall ceremony and a religious service, the megamillion merger was to be toasted by the pick of tout Paris, many of them brought to the baronne's cháteau by special train. Solving such problems as whether to serve Pol Roger...
Makeup must never become a mask, Pablo insists. "Even a so-called defect can be interesting," he says. He had Italian Beauty Donna Livia Aldobrandini's Roman nose photographed in profile for Town & Country. "The more crooked the better," he stated firmly. "Don't try to hide what you think is bad; just wear it proudly...
...16th century Villa Aldobrandini, which looks down on Rome from the Quirinal Hill, was built in the period of Europe's Renaissance. Last week the Deputy Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Benelux met in its frescoed hall to map the way to a political renaissance: the United States of Europe...
...crowds waited, pushed for better positions, hissed at one another gutturally, as is the moda of the displeased Roman, in the Ducal Hall of the Vatican Pius XI donned his ceremonial vestments; prepared to set out accompanied by his religious and secular court, by Princes Orsini, Boncompagni, Massimo, Aldobrandini. On the way to St. Peter's there joined this group the Noble Guard, the Knights of the Cape and Sword, all the Cardinals in Rome, Patriarchs from the East, white-mitred abbots, purple-clad canons of St. Peter's, Swiss Guards, Palatine Guards, members of religious orders in sombre habits...
Margherita of Savoy, mother of the present King Victor Emmanuel III, Queen Mother of Italy, and darling of the Italian people, sold the Villa Aldobrandini, her historic residence in Rome to the Crown Prince Humbert, namesake of her assassinated husband...
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