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2 unusual facts about Infanta Beatriz of Spain


Infanta Beatriz of Spain

Don Marco Torlonia (born 2 July 1937), later 6th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, who married (1) Donna Orsetta Caracciolo di Castagneto (17 May 1940 – 10 March 1968), one son; (2) Philippa McDonald (born 3 June 1942), one daughter; (3) Blažena Svitáková (born 16 October 1940), one daughter, born before marriage

The Spanish Royal Family left the country in 1931, in the face of Republican demonstrations, settling in Paris, before moving to Fontainebleau.


House of Torlonia

Marino married the rich American Mary Elsie Moore; they were the parents of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, who married the Infanta Beatriz of Spain, the daughter of King Alfonso XIII— and of Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, the wife of American tennis player Francis Xavier Shields and grandmother of the American actress Brooke Shields.


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