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Going to Town. Now the most preposterous refugees of all had washed into Switzerland-the Italian Fascists. At the Palace Hotel could be met such old-time friends of the Count as Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, widow of the Fascist foreign minister whom her father had had shot. With her was her latest lover, dandified Marchese Pucci, who had helped whisk her across the Swiss frontier when Mussolini fell. This strange pair descended periodically from their snug mountain chalet to dance, dine and wine...
...chance of returning to Italy had nothing to do with the Italian Fascists. She was Princess Marie-José, daughter of the late King Albert of the Belgians and wife of Italy's Crown Prince Umberto. She lived quietly, with her children and her sedate sister-in-law, Countess Calvi di Bergolo, waiting to see if Italy would be safe for monarchy...
Born. To Prince Franz Josef II, 38, ruler of the tiny (65 sq. mi.), neutral Principality of Liechtenstein; and Princess Georgine, 23, blond, onetime Austrian countess; their first child, a son; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Name: Johannes Adam Pius. Godfather: Pope Pius...
...penetrates no farther than to show at the start of the film a big blustering oil man and his innocent gal of the far west, and at its conclusion a cynical, rather heartless old woman. The only convincing performance of the movie is Agnes Moorehead's, as the Countess, friend, adviser, and former lover of the Major...
Amber married three others (in due succession), became a rich, widowed Countess. That was her high estate when she met King Charles II. "His dark lazy eyes stirred the embers of desire, at which [her husbands] had rudely raked but never once brought into flame." Charles made Amber a Duchess and Lady of the Bedchamber, had her painted "on a heap of black cushions, unashamedly naked...