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Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Caroline Moorehead

Chatto & Windus, pp.405, 20

In 1930, when she was 19 years old, Edda Mussolini married Galeazzo Ciano. His father was a loyal minister in her father’s government: it was a suitable match. Five hundred wedding invitations went out to the Roman nobility, to diplomats from more than 30 countries and to all the senior fascists, the gerarchi.

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