Word: principessa
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...artist with no claim to distinction except a five-year stretch in jail. And by shrugging off sex, dryly noting its acceptance as a sort of public utility, Darling succeeds where other entries in the movie sleepstakes fumble. The sharpest asides occur in Capri, where the future principessa and her homosexual photographer-pal compete in a game of one-upmanship involving a dark-eyed waiter...
Catholicism reinforced her temperamental prudery. It seemed incredible to her princely in-laws, but she did not know what all Rome knew-that Prince Rico, her husband, had lived throughout their marriage in devoted adultery with a Principessa Giulia Monfalconi. She created a tremendous fuss when she found out, decamped with her daughter Constanza to lead a diminished but still sumptuous life in London, and went into a huff that lasted the rest of her life...
...Roman nobles began drifting into the Café de Paris, too, and nowadays Principessa Giovanelli, Marchese Bottini and assorted Orsinis and Caracciolos are regularly paged over the Café's new loudspeakers. Says a less exalted Roman who recently abandoned his longtime table at Doney's: "I like Americans. But I like my Roman friends, too. And the place to see them is at the Café de Paris." Inevitably, more and more Americans in Rome are beginning to take the same line. Said one two-week tourist: "I like to watch strange people...
...starts when Neddy tender considerate husband and rising young English architect, signs up for a 13-month job in Australia and packs Celia and the kids off to Forte dei Marmi on the Italian Riviera. There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They flourish...
...first place, Principessa Jane di San Faustino (born Miss Jane Campbell) never stays in a palace in Venice, but has had an apartment in the Excelsior-Palace Hotel. Lido, for many years, holding court in front of her capanna on the beach daily, where (even during the era of knee-length frocks) she has been a well-marked figure with her white hair and her long simple white gowns...