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Pensive Thought. Another melancholy man turned up last year as a possible suitor: the hawk-nosed, greying Shah of Iran, 39, able and conscientious, divorced from his Queen Soraya and badly needing a son for his heirless kingdom. Attracted by published pictures of Princess Ella, he went to Geneva ostensibly for dental care, was a dinner guest at the sprawling Merlinge villa where Ella lives with ex-Queen Marie José. After the Shah departed, the Italian press clamored so loudly that lovely Ella again visited her native land. At a press conference, after some pensive thought, she told reporters...
...Called Ella by her intimates, the princess made occasional short visits to Italy, where her former subjects searched for adjectives to describe the tall (5 ft. 11 in.) doe-eyed beauty who speaks five languages, rides, sings, plays the guitar, walks regally erect and smiles like a queen. "A charming princess," raved the weekly Séttimo Giorno. "One of the loveliest girls of royal blood," mooned Rome's Il Messaggero. "Last summer at the pool at Gstaad, everyone agreed she had the most beautiful royal legs in Europe." Gushed a reporter: "With those eyes and that long chestnut...
Papal Message. In his capital city of Teheran, where his own life is not squalid, the Shah was silent on his Peacock Throne. But Iranian court circles pointed out that the staunchly Roman Catholic house of Savoy was used to religious difficulties. Maria Pia, Ella's sister, married Alexander of Yugoslavia, who belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church. Her Aunt Giovanna married Orthodox King Boris of Bulgaria, and the pledge to raise their children as Roman Catholics was given but not fulfilled. Yet Pope Pius XI sent Queen Giovanna a message carrying his blessings and esteem -and the message...
...Iranian constitution offered a stumbling block with its requirement that the heir to the throne have an Iranian mother. But court circles suggested that this explicit injunction might not be interpreted too rigidly, as long as Princess Ella allowed her children to be raised as Moslems. At week's end the Shah's matchmaking sister, Princess Chams, who arranged his earlier marriage to Soraya, was in Geneva, ostensibly for sinus treatment but presumably ready, willing and able to conduct further negotiations between the Peacock Throne and the House of Savoy. As for tall, irenic Princess Gabriella...
...with a lining of Athene." Henry James wrote to her about "those evenings at your board and in your box, those tea-times in your pictured halls [which] flash again in my mind's eye as real life-saving stations." To her patient husband she was simply "Busy Ella...