Marie-Jose.(Obituary)(Marie-Jose, last queen of Italy)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Economist (US), The, February, 2001

HER coronation, Marie-Jose said later, was rather a fussy affair. Her dresser had recalled that at Marie-Jose's wedding years earlier (pictured) her veil had come adrift three times while she was walking down the aisle. Madam would not want that to happen again, would she? Probably madam did not care.

She gave the impression of being indifferent to ceremony. But she submitted to the nagging of her attendant and everyone at the coronation said that no one in the history of Italy had looked more queenly. Marie-Jose and her husband Umberto were crowned on May 9th 1946. On June 2nd, ...