Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . to the Duke of Torlonia-Ceri, he is not aTorlonia by birth. He is a younger brother of the PrincePaul Borghese, whose bankruptcy created so great a sensa-tion throughout the civilized world. Giulio, for that is his name, at the time of his marriagewith old Alessandro Torlonias daughter, whose dowryamounted to no less than ^25,000,000, was induced in con-sideration thereof to abandon his grand old family name ofBorghese, so celebrated in mediaeval history, in order toado
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . to the Duke of Torlonia-Ceri, he is not aTorlonia by birth. He is a younger brother of the PrincePaul Borghese, whose bankruptcy created so great a sensa-tion throughout the civilized world. Giulio, for that is his name, at the time of his marriagewith old Alessandro Torlonias daughter, whose dowryamounted to no less than ^25,000,000, was induced in con-sideration thereof to abandon his grand old family name ofBorghese, so celebrated in mediaeval history, in order toadopt the comparatively plebeian patronymic of his wife. Heis a handsome man from a physical point of view; but withregard to his intellect, the less said about it the better. If any further indication was required of the character ofthis man, who traded his name and his lineage for the Tor-lonia-Ceri gold and the Torlonia-Ceri strain of insanity, itwould be furnished by the fact that when his elder brotherbecame insolvent he declined to contribute even the smallestsum from his colossal wealth toward savine the historical. l8o WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. name of Borghese from the disgrace which had overtakenit. He was content to stand quietly by without stirring a finger,while all the heirlooms and treasures of the Boro^heses weredispersed to the four winds of heaven by public sale. He might have prevented the whole thing, both the bank-ruptcy and the forced sale, without scarcely feeling the lossof the money which would have been needed for that pur-pose. But he maintained the attitude of a perfect strangerin the matter. Such is the man who, if the news of the Royal betrothal isconfirmed, may one day stand on the steps of the Italianthrone as father-in-law to the King. For the Count of Turinis in the direct line of succession to the Crown. One of the most charming personalities whom I met at theCourt of Italy is Count Nigra, Italian Ambassador in is a great favorite of the Qu
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