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Present master of this domain is the first Alessandro's great-grandson, 23-year-old Don Alessandro Carlo Paolo Giulio Augusto Francesco Romano Torlonia, Prince Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Prince of Canino and Musignamo, Duke of Ceri, Marquess of Romavecchia. To prevent Torlonia tenants from acquiring any permanent rights to their land, the family has forbidden them to plant trees or build huts. The Torlonias' armed guard no longer has to rely on the hounds; it rides in jeeps, patrolling day & night, along a 33-mile road surrounding Fucino...
...Stockholm, Sweden's King Gustaf V turned 91. His traditional birthday fishing party was rained out (the day before he had landed a five-pound pike with no help from anyone); so he celebrated indoors, with a half-bottle of red wine for lunch, and a visit from great-grandson Prince Carl Gustaf, 3, who brought flowers and homemade birthday candles...
...Lexington, Va., Robert E. Lee IV, 24, great-grandson of the General of the Confederacy, graduated from the university named after his ancestor: Washington...
...Majesty browsed around for an hour, while other shoppers politely made way, then left without buying anything. But Harrods, which had sold her some baby clothes for her new great-grandson a few months ago, was grateful that she had remembered the day. Watching her leave, a $24-a-week stenographer who had looked wistfully at an $80 dress and also come away without buying, sighed: "I don't think they want people like me to come into their old store...
Married. Dom Joāo de Orléans e Bragança, 33, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, now a captain in the Brazilian air force; and Princess Fatima, 26, sister-in-law of Egypt's King Farouk; she for the second time; in Sintra, Portugal...