#Countess Margherita

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1770s portraits (from top to bottom) -

1771 Hester, Countess of Sussex, and Her Daughter, Lady Barbara Yelverton by Thomas Gainsborough (Toledo Museum of Art - Toledo, Ohio, USA). From Wikimedia.

1776 Charlotte Bettesworth (c.1755–1841), Mrs John Sargent by George Romney (Sudley House - Aigburth, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK). From bbc.co (now artuk.org).

1777 Margherita Sparapani Gentili Boccapadule by Laurent Pécheux (location ?). From tumblr.com/history-of-fashion/703331047465713664/1777-laurent-pécheux-margherita-sparapani; sized to fit screen 1010X1400 @72 464kj.

1777-1778 The Honourable Miss Monckton by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Tate Collection - London UK). From their Web site; removed spots throughout image with Photoshop.

Lady, said to be Marie-Madeleine Guimard by Jean-Frédéric Schall (auctioned by Christie's). From their Web site; there are too many spots to remove.

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Countess Margherita von und zu Arco-Zinneberg  ||  Oscar de la Renta

[ciaheyhimm]

Some pictures of Italo Balbo and his family (wife, children and nephews)!

Italo Balbo (1896 - 1940);

Countess Margherita Emanuella Florio (1901 - 1980), Balbo's wife;

Giuliana Balbo (1926)

Valeria Balbo (1928)

Paolo Balbo (1930 - 2016)

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Plus, some other photos, including a 18 year old Balbo (first picture on the left)

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Might as well work on this one too…

On Age in Carmen Sandiego (2019)

Or, at the very least, in the timeline of Crimson Shades.

First off, Carmen’s mother, Carlotta Valdez (aka “Vera Cruz”), was supposed to have “died” in 1999. Carmen looked around perhaps a year old at that point in time, giving her a possible birth-date in 1996 to 1997. This in turn suggests that the series takes place some time before the actual date of publication—say, 2017/2018 onwards—to maintain Carmen’s rough age.

Rough age ranges of the characters, taking Carmen’s rough birthdate for estimation:

Team Red

Isabela Valdez/Black Sheep/Carmen Sandiego: 16/17 starting at VILE, 18/19 during the Poitiers Caper, 22/23 by the end.

Fairly self-explanatory.

Pierre Bouchard/Player: 12/13 as a White Hat Hacker, 14/15 during the Poitiers Caper, 18/19 by the end.

Not quite old enough for a learner’s permit (Up Here it’s a G1) during the earlier capers.

Ivy Collins: 19 during the Donuts/Poitiers Capers, 23 by the end.

Zack Collins: 18 during the Donuts/Poitiers Capers, 22 by the end.

Zack is supposed to be around a year younger than Ivy.

Nakamura Suhara/Shadowsan: 23 when sent after Dexter Wolfe, 42 during the Poitiers Caper, 46 by the end.

Young but not too young, as it were.

VILE

Eartha McGlynn/Coach Brunt: 39 upon receiving Black Sheep, 58 during the Poitiers Caper, 61 when arrested, 63 by the end.

Gunnar Stromme/Professor Maelstrom: 37 upon receiving Black Sheep, 56 during the Poitiers Caper, 60 when arrested, 62 by the end.

Oluchi Cleopatra Okorie/Countess Cleo: 26 upon receiving Black Sheep, 45 during the Poitiers Caper, 49 when arrested, 51 by the end.

Saira Dhibar/Doctor Bellum: 33 upon receiving Black Sheep, 54 during the Poitiers Caper, 58 when arrested, 60 by the end.

Sir Nigel Braithwaite/Roundabout: 56 when appointed, 57 when arrested, 59 by the end.

Margherita Picasso/Cookie Booker: 54 when first pelted, 62 when the Hard Drive was stolen, 67 by the end.

Vlad Bobinski: 28 upon receiving Black Sheep, 45 upon letting Black Sheep get away, 50 by the end.

Boris Vladinski: 27 upon receiving Black Sheep, 44 while watching Vlad let Black Sheep get away, 49 by the end.

They may be slightly younger or older, but at least Coach Brunt’s age seems to have been confirmed at 60 by the time of the Fourth Season.

Graham Calloway/Gray/Crackle: 18 starting at VILE, 20 during the Poitiers Caper, 24 by the end.

Jean-Paul Marignan/Le Chèvre: 19 starting at VILE, 21 during the Poitiers Caper, 25 by the end.

Antonio Sánchez/El Topo: 18/19 starting at VILE, 20/21 during the Poitiers Caper, 24/25 by the end.

Sheena Landry/Tigress: 18 starting at VILE, 20 during the Poitiers Caper, 23 when arrested, 24 by the end.

Parker Morris/Mime Bomb: 18 starting at VILE, 20 during the Poitiers Caper, 23 when arrested, 25 by the end.

Sawa Jin/Paper Star: 17 starting at VILE, 18 during the Magna Carta Caper, 22 when arrested at the end.

ACME

Tamara Fraser/Chief: 26 when killing Dexter Wolfe, 45 during the Poitiers Caper, 49 when arresting VILE, 51 by the end.

Inspector/Agent Chase Devineaux: 37 during the Poitiers Caper, 38/39 when arresting VILE, 41 by the end.

Agent Julia Argent: 25 during the Poitiers Caper, 27 when arresting VILE, 29 by the end.

This is going to cause some trouble, I just know it. But the average amount of time it takes to get a university degree in the UK is around three years, and Julia has two of them. She also seems to have jumped right to an associate professorship at Oxford in Season 3, the requirements for which are around 4-6 years of study plus a thesis. Thus Julia would have had to have been in school for at least something like seven to nine years before joining Interpol, with whom she had apparently only been for a fortnight before the Poitiers Caper. The number above assumes that she skipped a year and took a year less to complete her second degree. Or took two years less. Or started two years early. You get my point. Basically, Julia has to be a fair bit older than she looks in order to actually have the qualifications she possesses.

Agent Umaira Zari: 38 during the Poitiers Caper, 40 when arresting VILE, 42 by the end.

Some additional ages:

Nakamura Hideo: 17 when his brother Suhara was born, 36 when his brother disappeared, 63 when his brother returned for good, 65 by the end.

Not an unreasonable age given his looks, I thought.

Carlotta Valdez: 27 when she gave birth to Isabela, 47 when Carmen returned home to her, 49 by the end.

Young but not too long, once again.

Any I missed?

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Royal Birthdays for today, November 20th:

Maximinus II, Emperor of Rome, 270

Taizong of Song, Emperor of China, 939

Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1603

Tipu Sultan, Ruler of Mysore, 1750

Margherita of Savoy, Queen of Italy, 1851

Maria Letizia Bonaparte, Duchess of Aosta, 1866

Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, Countess of Pfeil, 1970

Sofia, Princess of Bulgaria, 1999

Umberto, Prince of Bulgaria, 1999

Theodora, Princess of Liechtenstein, 2004

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Jacob Van Doort (Flemish, active 1606-1629). Princess Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel (1593-1650), later Duchess of Saxe-Altenberg, 1609. Oil on canvas

Fig. 6 - John de Critz the Elder (Flemish, 1551-1642). Anne of Denmark, ca. 1605-1610. Oil on canvas

Frans Pourbus the Younger (Netherlandish, 1569-1622). Margherita Gonzaga, Princess of Mantua, 1606. Oil on canvas

Fig. 1 - Robert Peake (English, 1551-1619). Ann Vavasour, ca. 1600. 55.5 x 51. Guildford: National Trust, Hatchlands, 1166065_CC279. on loan

Fig. 2 - Robert Peake the Elder (English, 1551-1619). Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham, 1597

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (Flemish, 1561-1636). Dorothy, Lady Dormer

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The Holy War for the County of Labda ends on 14 Jun 1123, with King Goffredo contributing 100% in War Contribution to the Victory effort. Emperor Zoltan of the Holy Roman Empire defeats High Chieftain Musa II ibn Abdul-Gafur of Cyrenaica and becomes very pleased with King Goffredo.

King Goffredo gets tempted by thoughts on his childhood Crush, Duchess Sophia of Krain, and contemplates writing a letter to her to confess his love. However, now that he has rededicated his life to God, he checks himself to set aside these childish thoughts.

He already has a wife, Queen Drichglur, on top of having a lover in Karlotte. He doesn't need anymore additional drama in his life.

King Goffredo's Steward Count Eugenio has exposed the affair between the unmarried Duke Bernhard of Transjurania and his lover Margherita. In solidarity with Duke Bernhard's circumstances and predicament, having a lover too himself, King Goffredo dismisses the accusations and decides against punishing the lovers.

King Goffredo's brother and vassal, Count Cecco of Bouillon arrives in Firenze to pay homage to King Goffredo. However, during his pledge of oath, Count Cecco stumbles and falls. Magnanimously, King Goffredo comments that all that matters are Count Cecco's oath.

At court, a peasant comes bearing news of A Holy Tomb, wanting King Goffredo to sponsor the cult of another local Saint from Tirano yet again. This time, however, the Saint in question: Dado de Busca seems to be approved by clergy Prince-Bishop Csak of Italy as well. So King Goffredo decides to venerate the Saint by making Tirano a Temple Holding.

King Goffredo's Wet Nurse Raisenda d'Omelas hurries him into chambers of Princess Matilda, who at the age of 4 years old, knows how to say the words "di Canossa" - the House name!

Count Eugenio of Polesine, who just came of age about a year ago and dislikes King Goffredo, is holding a feast in Rovigo. King Goffredo seizes this chance to attend and befriend Count Eugenio.

During the feast, King Goffredo manages to overhear Countess Beneita of Arborea spill her secret of being a Witch. As a former Witch himself, King Goffredo does not know whether he should expose her secret so as to get her to repent before God, or help her keep it a secret because exposing her secret into the open would mean Countess Beneita might face jail time from her direct liege Duchess Subia.

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TIARA ALERT: Countess Margherita von und zu Arco-Zinneberg wore the Savoy-Aosta Tiara for her wedding to Charles Green at the Asam Basilica of St. Margaretha in Osterhofen, Germany on 19 March 2022.

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Women painters from the seventeenth century and before

I have compiled a small, incomplete list of women painters, working mainly in Europe, who were born before the year 1700. You can find works by all of them by searching for them on my blog or by looking through my early women artists tag. Alternatively, here is a post featuring self-portraits by some of them.

Artemisia wasn’t the only one. We have always been here.

Lucia Anguissola (Italian, 1536 or 1538 - c. 1565, before 1568)

Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, c. 1532 - 1625)

Mary Beale (English, 1633 - 1699)

Marie Blancour (French, 17th century)

Cornelia toe Boecop (Dutch, 1551 - 1629)

Mechteld toe Boecop (Dutch, c. 1520 - 1598)

Alijda Boelens (Dutch, 1557 - 1630)

Gesina ter Borch (Dutch, 1633 - 1690)

Madeleine Boullogne (French, 1646 - 1710)

Eufrasia Burlamacchi (Italian, 1482 - 1548)

Margherita Caffi (Italian, 1650 - 1710)

Ginevra Cantofoli (Italian, 1608 - 1672)

Joan Carlile (English, ca. 1606 - 1679)

Elizabeth Dormer, Countess of Carnarvon (English, 1633 - 1678)

Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1675 - 1757)

Elisabeth-Sophie Chéron (French, 1648 - 1711)

Maria Giovanna Clementi (La Clementina, Italian, c. 1692 - 1761)

Suzanne de Court (French, active ca. 1600)

Anna Folkema (Dutch, 1695 - 1768)

Lavinia Fontana (Italian, 1552 - 1614)

Fede Galizia (Italian, 1578 - 1630)

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600 - 1670)

Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593 - c. 1656)

Maria de Grebber (Dutch, 1602 - 1680)

Guda (German, 12th century)

Margareta de Heer (Dutch, c. 1600 - before 1665)

Catharina van Hemessen (Flemish, 1528 - ca. 1587)

Johanna Helena Herolt (Johanna Helena Graff) (German, 1668 - 1723)

Sarah Hoadly (English, 1676 - 1743)

Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (German, 1622 - 1709)

Antonina Houbraken (Dutch, 1686 - 1736)

Anna Maria Janssens (Belgian, before 1620 - after 1668)

Henrietta Johnston (American, c. 1674 - 1729)

Gisela von Kerzenbroeck (German, 13th century)

Ann Killigrew (English, 1660 - 1685)

Katherina Van Knibbergen (Dutch, 17th century)

Anna Maria de Koker (Dutch, 1640 - 1698)

Giulia Lama (Italian, c. 1685 - after 1753)

Herrad of Landsberg (Alsatian, c. 1130 - 1195)

Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609 - 1660)

Barbara Longhi (Italian, 1552 - 1638)

Elisabetta Marchioni (Italian, active 17th century)

Diana De Rosa, called Annella di Massimo (Italian, 1601 - 1634)

Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647 - 1717)

Princess Mitsuko (Gen’yo) (Japanese, 1634 - 1727)

Louise Moillon (French, 1610 - 1696)

Maria Monninckx (Dutch, 1673 or 1676 - 1757)

Jacoba Maria Nickele (Dutch, c. 1690 - 1749)

Plautilla Nelli (Italian, 1524 - 1588)

Josefa de Óbidos (Portuguese, 1630 - 1684)

Maria van Oosterwijck (Dutch, 1630 - 1693)

Arcangela Paladini (Italian, 1596 - 1622)

Geronima Cagnaccia Parasole (Italian, c. 1569 - 1622)

Magdalena van de Passe (Dutch, c. 1600 - 1638)

Catharina Peeters (Dutch, 1615 - 1676)

Clara Peeters (Flemish, 1584 - 1657)

Angela Maria Pittetti (Italian, 1690 - 1763)

Elena Recco (Italian, active 17th - 18th century)

Cornelia de Rijck (or de Ryck, Dutch, 1653 - 1726)

Marietta Robusti (Italian, c. 1550 - c. 1590)

Geertruydt Roghman (Dutch, 1625 - 1657)

Anna Elisabeth Ruysch (Dutch, 1666 - after 1741)

Rachel Ruysch (Dutch, 1664 - 1750)

Maria Schalcken (Dutch, 1645 - 1699)

Anna Maria van Schurman (Dutch, 1607 - 1678)

Elisabetta Sirani (Italian, 1638 - 1665)

Levina Teerlinc (Flemish, c. 1510-1520 - 1576)

Maria Verelst (English, 1680 - 1744)

Johanna Vergouwen (Flemish, 1630 - 1714)

Charlotte Vignon (French, before 1639 - after 1685)

Anna Waser (Swiss, 1678 - 1714)

Michaelina Wautier (or Woutier, Woutiers, Belgian, d. 1689)

Alida Withoos (Dutch, 1670 - 1715)

Aleida Wolfsen (Dutch, 1648 - after 1692)

Margaretha Wulfraet (Dutch, 1678 - 1760)

Kiyohara Yukinobu (Japanese, 1643 - 1682)

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Margaret of Sicily or Margherita di Sicilia-Aragona (1331 in Palermo – 1377 in Neustadt) was a Sicilian princess, daughter of the King Frederick III of Sicily and his wife Eleanor of Anjou. In 1348 she married Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine, and was Countess Palatine of the Rhine until 1353, year of the husband's death.

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Happy 50th birthday to HRH Princess Olga of Greece ,Savoy -Aosta Duchess of Apulia

Princess Olga, Duchess of Apulia (née: Princess Olga Isabelle of Greece, born 17 November 1971 is the daughter of author Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Marina Karella, an artist and daughter of the Greek business magnate Theodore Karella. Princess Olga is the wife of Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta, Duke of Apulia.

Princess Olga grew up in Paris and New York, spending summers at the family's island retreat at Patmos, Greece. She chose to attend boarding school in England, studied history in Rome, and is a graduate of Princeton University. She also holds a degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Although Olga worked for a while in interior decoration, she went to Panama to photograph and study phalaena. Later, as a lepidopterist, she helped to set up and then worked in the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama in co-operation with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She is also a journalist and filmmaker.

Unlike other members of the Greek Royal Family, she was not deemed a full member of the Greek royal house under the monarchy, despite being born of a marriage recognized by King Constantine II of Greece .

As daughters of a non-dynastic marriage, she and her elder sister, Princess Alexandra, are not accorded the traditional style of Royal Highness, nor do they bear the titular suffix of Denmark

Her engagement to Prince Aimone of Savoy, Duke of Apulia, son of Amedeo, 5th Duke of Aosta, was announced in May 2005. Aimone and Olga are second cousins; both being great-grandchildren of the French pretender Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise. They are also second cousins-once-removed, as George I of Greece is Aimone's great-great-grandfather and Olga's great-grandfather. Olga's father, Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, Aimone's late paternal grandmother, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta (née Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark), and The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark), were all first cousins.

The couple wed, after a three-year engagement, on 16 September 2008 at the Italian embassy in Moscow, the city in which Aimone is employed. Their religious marriage took place on 27 September at Patmos, where it was expected that the Patriarchal Exarch of Patmos, Archimandrite Andipas Nikitaras, would preside at the Church of the Evangelismos of the Virgin Mary at Pano Kambos, with a reception following on the site of a former school. Since the Second Vatican Council marriages celebrated according to the rite of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, to which the exarchate belongs, may be recognized as canonically valid. A canonical dispensation was obtained from the Catholic Archbishop of Moscow, Mons. Paolo Pezzi, who was the local Ordinary of prince Aimone.

Present for the nuptials in Patmos were several members of Olga's paternal family, including Queen Sofia of Spain (née Princess of Greece and Denmark), King Constantine II of the Hellenes and his consort Queen Anne Marie (née Princess of Denmark), Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Marina (bride's parents), and Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark. With the exception of 78-year-old Margherita, Dowager Archduchess of Austria-Este (née Princess of Savoy-Aosta), all members of the Aosta branch of the House of Savoy were in attendance, i.e. Prince Amedeo of Savoy, 5th Duke of Aosta (bridegroom's father) and his consort, Princess Silvia, Duchess of Aosta, Princess Claude of Orléans (aka Princess of France, bridegroom's mother), as well as Aimone's two full sisters, Princess Bianca Countess Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga and Princess Mafalda Madame Lombardo di San Chirico, as well as Maria-Cristina (née Princess of Savoy-Aosta) and her husband Prince Casimir of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. From the senior branch of the Italian royal family Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy (daughter of the late King Umberto II of Italy) was present, as she had been at the Athens wedding of Olga's parents in 1965.

On 7 March 2009, Princess Olga gave birth to a son named Umberto in Paris, France. On 24 May 2011 in Paris, Olga gave birth to another son, named Amedeo Michele. A day after his birth Amedeo was granted the title Duke of the Abruzzi by his paternal grandfather. On 14 December 2012, Olga gave birth to a baby daughter, Isabella Vita Marina, in Paris, France.

Χρόνια πολλά για τα 50ά γενέθλια στην ABY Πριγκί��ισσα Όλγα της Ελλάδας, Σαβοΐας Αοστης - Δούκισσα της Απουλίας

Η πριγκίπισσα Όλγα, Ισαβελα γεννημένη στις 17 Νοεμβρίου 1971 είναι κόρη του συγγραφέα Πρίγκιπα Μιχαήλ της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας και της συζύγου του, Μαρίνα Καρέλλα, καλλιτέχνη και κόρη του Έλληνα μεγιστάνα των επιχειρήσεων Θεόδωρου Καρέλλα. Η Πριγκίπισσα Όλγα είναι σύζυγος του πρίγκιπα Αιμόνε της Σαβοΐας-Αόστα, δούκα της Απουλίας.

Η πριγκίπισσα Όλγα μεγάλωσε στο Παρίσι και τη Νέα Υόρκη, περνώντας τα καλοκαίρια στην Πάτμο, Ελλάδα. Επέλεξε να σπουδάσει οικοτροφείο στην Αγγλία, σπούδασε ιστορία στη Ρώμη και είναι απόφοιτος του Πανεπιστημίου Πρίνστον. Είναι επίσης κάτοχος πτυχίου από τη Σχολή Αρχιτεκτονικής, Σχεδιασμού και Συντήρησης του Πανεπιστημίου Κολούμπια. Αν και η Όλγα δούλεψε για λίγο στην εσωτερική διακόσμηση, πήγε στον Παναμά για να φωτογραφίσει και να μελετήσει τη phalaena. Αργότερα, ως λεπιδοπτέρας, βοήθησε στη δημιουργία και στη συνέχεια εργάστηκε στο Liquid Jungle Lab στον Παναμά σε συνεργασία με το Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute και το Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Είναι επίσης δημοσιογράφος και σκηνοθέτης.

Σε αντίθεση με άλλα μέλη της Ελληνικής Βασιλικής Οικογένειας, δεν θεωρήθηκε πλήρες μέλος του ελληνικού βασιλικού οίκου παρά το γεγονός ότι γεννήθηκε από γάμο που είχε αναγνωρίσει ο βασιλιάς Κωνσταντίνος Β' της Ελλάδας.

Ως κόρες ενός μη δυναστικού γάμου, αυτή και η μεγαλύτερη αδερφή της, η πριγκίπισσα Αλεξάνδρα, δεν έχουν το παραδοσιακό στυλ της Βασιλικής Υψηλότητας, ούτε φέρουν το επίθημα του τίτλου της Δανίας

Ο αρραβώνας της με τον πρίγκιπα Αιμόνε της Σαβοΐας, Δούκα της Απουλίας, γιο του Αμεντέο, 5ου Δούκα της Αόστα, ανακοινώθηκε τον Μάιο του 2005.

ΟΑιμόνεκαι η Όλγα είναι δεύτερα ξαδέρφια. Και οι δύο ήταν δισέγγονα του Γάλλου Jean d'Orléans, duc de Guise. Είναι επίσης δεύτερα ξαδέρφια καθώς ο Γεώργιος Α' της Ελλάδας είναι ο προπάππους του Αιμόνε και ο προπάππους της Όλγας. Ο πατέρας της Όλγας, Πρίγκιπας Μιχαήλ της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας, η αείμνηστη γιαγιά του Αιμόνε από τον πατέρα, η πριγκίπισσα Ειρήνη, Δούκισσα της Αόστα πριγκίπισσα της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας και ο Πρίγκιπας Φίλιππος, Δούκας του Εδιμβούργου (γεννηθείς Πρίγκιπας Φίλιππος της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας), ήταν όλα τα πρώτα ξαδέρφια.

Το ζευγάρι παντρεύτηκε, μετά από τ��ία χρόνια αρραβώνα, στις 16 Σεπτεμβρίου 2008 στην ιταλική πρεσβεία στη Μόσχα, την πόλη στην οποία εργάζεται ο Αιμόνε .

Ο θρησκευτικός τους γάμος τελέστηκε στις 27 Σεπτεμβρίου στην Πάτμο, όπου προεξάρχει ο Πατριαρχικός Έξαρχος Πάτμου Αρχιμανδρίτης Αντίπας Νικηταράς στον Ιερό Ναό Ευαγγελισμού της Παναγίας στον Πάνω Κάμπο, με δεξίωση στον χώρο του πρώην σχολείου.

Από τη Β' Σύνοδο του Βατικανού οι γάμοι που τελούνται σύμφωνα με το τυπικό του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, στο οποίο ανήκει η εξαρχία, μπορούν να αναγνωριστούν ως κανονικά έγκυροι. Μια κανονική απονομή ελήφθη από τον Καθολικό Αρχιεπίσκοπο Μόσχας Μον. Paolo Pezzi, ο οποίος ήταν ο τοπικός κανονικός του πρίγκιπα Aimone.

Παρόντες στους γάμους στην Πάτμο ήταν αρκετά μέλη της πατρικής οικογένειας της Όλγας, μεταξύ των οποίων η βασίλισσα Σοφία της Ισπανίας (πριγκίπισσας της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας), ο βασιλιάς των Ελλήνων Κωνσταντίνος Β' και η σύζυγός του Βασίλισσα Άννα Μαρία (Πριγκιπας και Πριγκίπισσα της Δανίας), ο Πρίγκιπας Μιχαήλ Ελλάδας και Δανίας και η σύζυγός του Μαρίνα (γονείς της νύφης) και η πριγκίπισσα Ειρήνη της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας. Με εξαίρεση την 78χρονη Margherita, Χήρα Archduchess of Austria-Este (née Princess of Savoy-Aosta), συμμετείχαν όλα τα μέλη του κλάδου της Aosta του Οίκου της Savoy, δηλαδή ο πρίγκιπας Amedeo της Savoy, 5ος δούκας της Ο Αόστα (πατέρας του γαμπρού) και η σύζυγός του, η πριγκίπισσα Σίλβια, η Δούκισσα της Αόστα, η πριγκίπισσα Κλοντ της Ορλεάνης (γνωστή και ως Πριγκίπισσα της Γαλλίας, μητέρα του γαμπρού), καθώς και οι δύο πλήρεις αδερφές του Αιμόνε, η πριγκίπισσα Μπιάνκα, η κόμισσα Αρριβάμπεν Βαλέντι Γκονζάγκα και ο Πρίγκιπας Σαν Κίρικο, καθώς και η Μαρία-Κριστίνα (το γένος Πριγκίπισσα της Σαβοΐας-Αόστα) και ο σύζυγός της Πρίγκιπας Κασίμιρ των Βουρβόνων-Δύο Σικελιών. Από τον ανώτερο κλάδο της ιταλικής βασιλικής οικογένειας ήταν παρούσα η πριγκίπισσα Μαρία Γαβριέλλα της Σαβοΐας (κόρη του αείμνηστου βασιλιά της Ιταλίας Ουμβέρτου Β'), καθώς είχε βρεθεί στον γάμο των γονιών της Όλγας στην Αθήνα το 1965.

Στις 7 Μαρτίου 2009, η πριγκίπισσα Όλγα γέννησε έναν γιο που ονομάστηκε Umberto στο Παρίσι της Γαλλίας. Στις 24 Μαΐου 2011 στο Παρίσι, η Όλγα γέννησε έναν άλλο γιο, τον Amedeo Michele. Μια μέρα μετά τη γέννησή του στον Αμεντέο απονεμήθηκε ο τίτλος Δούκας των Αμπρούτζι από τον παππού του. Στις 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2012, η ​​Όλγα γέννησε μια κόρη, την Isabella Vita Marina, στο Παρίσι της Γαλλίας.

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Pompeo Molmenti - Pia de' Tolomei Being Led to Maremma - 1853

Pia de' Tolomei was an Italian noblewoman from Siena.

According to a tradition recorded by early commentators on Dante's Divine Comedy, she can be identified as the 'Pia' mentioned in Canto V of Purgatory, where Dante and Virgil meet those were penitent at the time of their sudden violent deaths – her tale follows that of Bonconte da Montefeltro. She states that she came from Siena and was killed by her husband in the Maremma:

Do thou remember me who am the Pia; Siena made me, unmade me Maremma; He knoweth it, who had encircled first, Espousing me, my finger with his gem.

She refers bitterly to her murderer for his disregard of his marital vows to her and briefly tells Dante her story. She asks the poet – once he has rested from his long journey – to remember her among the living and thus speed her journey through Purgatory. Dante uses the name 'la Pia' not 'Pia', underlining the familiarity between them. She also asks him to pray for her since she knows none of her family do so.

The identification of this 'Pia' with Pia de' Tolomei is now almost universally accepted, although conclusive documentary proof of this has yet to be found. Early commentators on the poem noted that she was to be identified as a woman of the Tolomei family in Siena, wife of Nello dei Pannocchieschi, lord of Castel di Pietra in Maremma, podestà of Volterra and Lucca, captain of the Guelph Taglia from 1284 and alive until at least 1322 (the year he made his will). There is also a surviving record of his second marriage, as a widower, to Margherita Aldobrandeschi, countess of Sovana and Pitigliano. They had one son, Binduccio or Bindoccio, who was murdered, aged thirteen, when Orsini assassins, threw him down a well in Massa Marittima.

The surviving archives do not name Nello's first wife, but she has been identified as Pia. Nello owned Castel di Pietra in Maremma, where it has been suggested he murdered Pia in 1297, either after she found out he was having an affair with Aldobrandeschi or to clear the way for his second marriage. Among the early commentators, Jacopo della Lana, l'Ottimo and Francesco di Bartolo claim that she may have been killed for some crime, while Benvenuto and an anonymous Florentine of the 14th century assert it was due to her husband's jealousy.

Against this identification, the Tolomei family had no daughters or nieces named Pia in Nello's time. However, one male of the family did marry a woman named Pia Malavolti – the marriage did not last long (she had many lovers) and so the Tolomei decided to have Nello, the head of the family, remove her to Maremma, where she died in misery, possibly murdered. A closely related theory is that Pia was born a Malvoti and entered the Tolomei family by her marriage to Baldo d'Aldobrandino de' Tolomei. According to this story, Pia was accused of adultery by her husband, then kidnapped by Nello and taken to Maremma, where she died.

Pompeo Marino Molmenti (8 November 1819, Villanova in Motta di Livenza – 17 December 1894, Venice) was an Italian painter.

He was born in Friuli to Francesco Molmenti, an engineer of comfortable means, who had followed his older brother, Ettore, to Venice. When he was orphaned as a boy, Pompeo was cared for by his uncle Ettore, who encouraged his studies. In 1834, he was enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia to study under Ludovico Lipparini, Odorico Politi, and Michelangelo Grigoletti. As a student he painted a Murder of Caesar.

One of his early patrons was Count Spiridione Papadopoli (1799-1859) and his wife, Teresa Mosconi, who owned a villa in Villanova, not far from Molmenti's birthplace. As a young man, he had painted a Death of Othello for the Papadopoli family. A second version was completed in 1866. During 1835 to 1840, Molmenti painted a Madonna and child for a lunette at the private oratory of the Papadopolis, which recalled the Renaissance Madonna Giovanelli of Giovanni Bellini. He painted a Santa Teresa (now lost) for the countess, and a San Paolo (destroyed) for the church of San Polo di Piave.

From 1843 to 1844, he accompanied the Duke Saverio di Blancas on a trip through Syria and Greece. During this time he drew many Arab subjects, and painted The Departure of Tobias with Rachel from the House of Laban for his patron Count Papadopoli and Sara gives Agar as wife to Abraham. He then traveled to Florence, Rome, Paris, and Munich. During 1848-1849, he participated in some of the patriotic uprisings.

In 1850, he displayed three paintings: Cimabue discovers in Giotto the Genius of Painting (now lost), a Holy Family copied from the Raphael painting Madonna della seggiola, and a Virgin and child and a St Ursula for the church of Sant'Orsola of Conegliano, now displayed in the duomo. He painted an Immaculate Conception for Malo near Vicenza; a Martyrdom of Santa Filomena for Vidor; a San Rocco for a church of Palmanova; and Jesus gives the key to St Peter for Fontanelle.

In 1851, he became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice and worked alongside Pietro Selvatico to reform the institution. Among his pupils were Antonio Beni, Giacomo Favretto, Luigi Nono, Bressanesi, Luigi Pastega, Egisto Lancerotto, Tranquillo Cremona, Napoleone Nani, Silvio Rotta and Ettore Tito.[6] He was knighted for the Order of the Crown of Italy.

In 1853 he exhibited a painting on the subject of Pia de' Tolomei, commissioned by the architect Count Giacomo Franco [ and now in the Museo Civico di Castelvecchio. He also painted an Arrest of Filippo Calendario (1854) commissioned by Princess Giovanelli.

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House of Wittelsbach & of Wettin: Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria

Amalie was born as the identical twin sister of Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, The Queen of Prussia. They are the oldest daughters and first twin set of Caroline of Baden, the second wife King Maximilian I. Joseph of Bavaria. Their younger full sisters are the twin sisters Archduchess Sophie of Austria and Queen Maria Anna of Saxony as well as Ludovika, The Duchess in Bavaria.

At the age of 21, Amalie married Prince John (Johann) of Saxony, the younger brother of King Frederick August II. who would later marry Amalie’s younger sister Maria Anna. In 1827, five years after the wedding, Amalie bore her first child Princess Marie Auguste Friederike of Saxony. Eight more children would follow, among them two kings of Saxony and the future mother of Queen Margherita of Italy. According to legend the famous pizza is named after this granddaughter of Amalie.

In 1851, Amalie became the chairwoman of the women’s association her sister had founded. She reorganized it and established a legal basis for it. It continued to exist until 1932. When her brother-in-law died in a horse accident in 1854 without any legitimate children, Amalie’s husband John succeeded to the throne of Saxony. Amalie would be Queen Consort of Saxony for 19 years until the death of her husband.

Amalie and her twin sister remained close throughout their entire lives. Elisabeth would often visit her twin and after. Like her sisters Maria Anna and Sophie, Amalie would also corresponded with author Countess Ida of Hahn-Hahn but only four times between 1870 and 1876.

Amalie died on November 8th, 1877, in Dresden. She had survived three of her four full sisters who all had died between 1872 and 1877. Only Ludovika, the youngest, would live until 1892.

// Vilma Degischer in The Sissi Trilogy (1955-1957)

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THE FATHER

Gianni Agnelli and Margherita Agnelli, later Countess von der Pahlen

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👯‍♀️ Salone Margherita is a café-chantant in the San Ferdinando district in Naples conceived thanks to ​​the Marino brothers inspired by the French café-chantants of Moulin Rouge and Folies Bergère in Paris. It was inaugurated on November 15, 1890 in the presence of princesses, countesses, politicians and journalists such as Matilde Serao. Symbol of the Italian Belle Époque, the Salone Margherita was the first in Italy to exhibit the can-can dancers. Not only were the billboards written in French, but also the artists' contracts and the menu. The waiters always spoke French, as did the spectators. Even the stage names of the artists were chosen in honor of the Parisian stars and vedettes... . Galleria Umberto I #Napoli . #salonemargherita #bellaepoque #naples #piece #backstage #liveconcert #cancan #france #campania #moulinerouge #paris #parigi #performance #instafollow #concert #teatro #piece #naples #followme #italy #poster #dancer #dance #saloon #live #napoles (presso Naples, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgMrasDoebQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Those that have married in to Royal Families since 1800

Monaco

Donna Beatrice Borromeo born 18 August 1985

She is the daughter of Don Carlo Ferdinando Borromeo, Count of Arona the son of Vitaliano Borromeo, 2nd Prince of Angera, and his long-time companion, Countess Donna Paola Marzotto Through her father she is related to Carlo Borromeo, who became a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop of Milan, and a canonized saint. 

The family currently owns most of the Borromean Islands in the Lago Maggiore, Milan city, and many other estates in the Lombardy and Piedmont countryside . She has an older brother, Carlo Ludovico Borromeo, who married Italian fashion designer Marta Ferri  daughter of Italian photographer Fabrizio Ferri,on 30 June 2012 on the island of Pantelleria.

Beatrice has three older half-sisters from her father's first marriage to German model Marion Sybil Zota: Donna Isabella married Count Ugo Brachetti Peretti. Donna Lavinia; married John Elkann, son of Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen and Alain Elkann. Donna Matilde married Prince Antonius zu Fürstenberg son of Heinrich, Prince of Fürstenberg.

Her maternal grandmother was the fashion designer Marta Marzotto (née Vacondio), ex-wife of Count Umberto Marzotto.Her uncle, Count Matteo Marzotto, is the former president and director of the Valentino fashion house at the time the label belonged to the Marzotto Group.

Since 2008, Borromeo became increasingly known in the tabloid press as the girlfriend of Pierre Casiraghi, the younger son of Caroline, Princess of Hanover. The couple married in a civil ceremony on Saturday, 25 July 2015 in the gardens of the Prince's Palace of Monaco. The religious ceremony took place on 1 August 2015 on Isola Bella, one of the Borromean Islands on Lake Maggiore, Italy. 

She finished secondary education, in 2002, at Milan's Liceo Classico Giovanni Berchet. Borromeo received a bachelor of laws from Bocconi University, Milan in 2010, under supervision of prof. Lorenzo Cuocolo. She also received a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University Journalism School in May 2012

Beatrice was a contributor to Newsweek and the Daily Beast in 2013. Prior to that, and from the newspaper's beginning in 2009, she worked as a full-time reporter for Il Fatto Quotidiano. She continued in that position through the year 2016

She has appeared on many television shows in Italy, beginning with Anno Zero on Rai 2 where she worked for two years, from 2006 to 2008. Every week she interviewed an average three guests on political development and social evils. In 2009, she even hosted a weekly show on the Radio 105 Network.

She interviewed Roberto Saviano, the famous author of Gomorrah, for Above magazine's June 2009 issue. She also interviewed American author of LA Confidential James Ellroy and former candidate for Colombia's presidency Ingrid Betancourt both for Il Fatto Quotidiano. For the same newspaper, she also interviewed Marcello Dell'Utri, Italian Senator and co-founder of Forza Italia. In the interview, Dell'Utri admitted to have entered politics to get immunity in order to escape his arrest. 

She directed Mamma Mafia, a documentary about mafia women: its preview was released by the Newsweek Daily Beast Company on 31 January 2013. That was her sole film in the English language. She has directed several documentaries in the Italian language, ranging from topics as the women of 'Ndrangheta, selfie surgery, and the children of Caivano.

Borromeo collaborated with Marco Travaglio and Vauro Senesi on the book Italia Annozero (Chiarelettere, 2009). She also wrote the preface for Birgit Hamer's Delitto senza castigo: La Vera Storia di Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia. (Aliberti, 2011).Birgit Hamer is a very old family friend; her mother is dear friends with Borromeo's mother, and Borromeo has admitted to having grown up hearing about the murder of Dirk Hamer from his sisters, including Birgit. Borromeo broke the story of the video confession of Vittorio Emanuele, who subsequently sued the newspaper for defamation. In 2015 a court ruled in favour of the newspaper.Borromeo then posted on Twitter: "Vincere una causa e' sempre piacevole, ma contro Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia la goduria è doppia!" ("Winning a case is always nice, but against Victor Emmanuel of Savoy the pleasure is double"), which resulted in spat on social media with his son Emanuele Filiberto

In November 2015 she was sanctioned Special Envoy for Human Rights for F4D. She considered herself in 2005 "atheist and leftist".

Pierre and Beatrice's first son, Stefano Ercole Carlo Casiraghi, was born on 28 February 2017. Their second son, Francesco Carlo Albert, was born on 21 May 2018.