‘Elizabeth. The Italian Queen ‘. The latest book by Ilaria Grillini (published by Rai Libri) will be presented in Rome, at Emme Restaurant & Bar (Rome). A split edition of the English sovereign, in the year of her Platinum Jubilee, ‘a long love story that binds the Windsors to our country’. The author will talk with the journalist Anna Maria Greco.
“That of the Windsors is certainly one of the ruling families that over the years has made headlines – explains a note in the precious volume – Since Edward VIII gave up the kingdom to marry the beautiful American Wallis Simpson, up to our days and all the gossip that revolves around Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle. Ilaria Grillini, journalist expert in the field of crowned heads reconstructs the privileged relationship that all the members of the English royal family have had with Italy, thanks also to the testimonies of the people, nobles, politicians and representatives of institutions, entrepreneurs and ordinary people, who had the pleasure of meeting them “.
Not only Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, but also George V, the Queen Mother, Charles and Diana, and more recently the young Harry with his wife, have often come to our country, and have visited it from Piedmont to Sicily, passing through for Rome and Florence. Therefore, starting from the five official ‘and a half’ trips of Queen Elizabeth, the author tells us many curious anecdotes about English royalty – from the lesser-known gaffes of Prince Philip to the glare of the Queen at the servants who do not know how to respect some details of the protocol at the table , from the absent and melancholy mood of Diana on her trip to Italy with Carlo to the good taste in wines of the Prince of Wales – in an unpublished chapter on the history of the English royal house, which has always made all those who follow it discuss and dream the vicissitudes.
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