Word: giovanna
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...last week. The stiff coattails of the bearded, bustling proprietor of the Hotel Subasio flapped with excitement, mayor and corporation excitedly talked plans for two days. Even the Franciscan brothers in the monastery, the Poor Clares in their convent, read their offices with a certain worldly detachment. For Princess Giovanna, next-to-youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, was coming to Assisi to be married to little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...Their Majesties the King and Queen [of Italy] are pleased to consent to the engagement of their daughter, Her Royal Highness the Princess Giovanna, with Boris III, King of the Bulgarians...
Since King Boris is Bulgarian Orthodox and Princess Giovanna is Roman Catholic, their matching has been obstructed by the Vatican for years. On behalf of Pope Pius XI it was denied last week that he had been asked to grant a special dispensation. While King Boris appeared to have won his main point, the marriage contract will provide that all children born to Princess Giovanna will be reared as Roman Catholics except the heir to the Throne who must, according to the Bulgarian constitution, be Bulgarian Orthodox...
Engaged. Boris (III) Clement Robert Marie Pius Louis Stanislaus Zavier, 36, Greek Orthodox King and Tsar of the Bulgarians, Duke of Saxe; and the Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria, 22, Roman Catholic daughter (third) of King Vittorio Emanuele & Queen Elena of Italy; by permission of the King & Queen of Italy...
...limousine of Princess Giovanna, 22-year-old daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, stopped where one Dante Morani, artilleryman, had fallen from his horse and lay bleeding in the road. The princess got out, bound up Morani's wounds, sped him to a hospital...