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Still on closest, friendliest terms with Italy is Bulgaria, despite the fact that II Duce's plan of marrying Princess Giovanna to Tsar Boris of Bulgaria was blocked at the very last minute (when His Majesty was actually en route to Rome) by Pope Pius XI (TIME, April...
...March the little Tsar himself left Sofia incognito?left behind a joyous and expectant people, thousands of whom had put Princess Giovanna's picture in one corner of their windowpanes and Tsar Boris' in the other. Sofia caf�s were hastily renamed Konditorei Giovanna. Delighted Bulgarian editors "learned on highest authority" that Pope Pius XI had agreed to the following compromise: all offspring of Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna except her first-born male would be reared as Roman Catholics; but the premier male, as Crown Prince of Bulgaria, would espouse the Eastern Orthodox religion in order to comply with...
...joked with railway officials, and hoped that this would be his last journey alone. It was understood in Sofia that Tsar Boris's official matchmaker, gallant General Ivan Wolkoff, was in Rome arranging for the marriage of Tsar Boris with the King of Italy's daughter Giovanna. Pictures of Princess Giovanna appeared in Sofia shopwindows. Newspapers said that a compromise had been reached with the Vatican whereby the first male child of Princess Giovanna and Tsar Boris might be educated in the Orthodox faith if the other children were Roman Catholic, and so comply with the Bulgarian Constitution...
...word to proceed to Rome. But no word came. Instead came General Wolkoff, glum and forbidding. The Vatican had not agreed to any compromise, it appeared. Unless all offspring of the union were brought up as Roman Catholics the Pope would not sanction or bless the marriage, and Princess Giovanna would automatically become excommunicate...
General Wolkoff, baffled, withdrew, and King Boris went to bed with an earache. In Sofia the various Konditorei Giovanna are now named Konditorei...