Thursday, September 24, 2009

Mafalda and Philipp "slipped away"

September 24, 1925

Despite the presence of large crowds outside castle of Racconigi, no one has actually seen the newly married Prince and Princess Philipp of Hesse leave for their honeymoon. The Associated Press reports "on good authority" that the couple slipped out of the castle in a closed car "which contained only themselves." It is understood that they went to Bordighera on the Italian Riviera, where they "first met and fell in love." The couple plan to stay a few days in Bordighera before traveling to Germany to Philipp's home, Schloss Friedrichshof. The Prince and Princess will settle in Rome, and will move into a villa, designed by Prince Philipp, near Mafalda's parents' Villa Savoia.

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