Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi
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Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (22 October 1916 – 15 September 1960), also known as Princess Marina Torlonia Shields and Princess Marina Torlonia Slater,[1][2] was an Italian-American aristocrat and charity worker.
Family
Torlonia was born in Rome, at Palazzo Núñez-Torlonia, the youngest daughter of Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi[3] and his American wife, Mary Elsie Moore, a daughter of Charles Arthur Moore, a hardware merchant from Connecticut.[4][5] The Torlonia family gained its fortune in the administration of Vatican finances.
She had three siblings:
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- Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi (1911–1986), the husband of Infanta Beatriz of Spain (1909–2002, daughter of King Alphonso XIII).[5][6]
- Donna Princess Cristina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (1913–1974)[5][6]
Political and charity work
In February 1934, Torlonia made her New York City debut.[7] Torlonia enjoyed going to nightclubs and undertaking Democratic Party-related charity work. In 1934 she led many charity fundraising efforts.[8] Some of the charity fundraisers she was involved with include the American Auxiliary Hospital in Mougins, France,[9][10] the Italian Welfare League,[11] New York City Cancer Institute,[12][13] the New York Diet Kitchen Association,[14][15] the Babies Hospital of the City of New York,[16] Soldiers and Sailors Club of New York,[17] New York Exchange for Woman's Work,[18] Woman's Auxiliary of the Osteopathic Clinic of New York,[19] Goddard Neighborhood Centre,[20] Children's Village at Dobbs Ferry, New York,[21] among others.
In 1936 Torlonia was dressed as "wealth" with a tall headdress and two hand maids at one of a nationwide set of birthday celebrations for President Roosevelt.[22] The following year in 1937 at the Roosevelt Birthday Ball Torlonia was one of a hundred women specially dressed to celebrate the event, she was dressed as "The East", representing the Eastern United States fashion, and in attendance was the President's mother Sara Roosevelt.[23][24]
Sculptor Marino Marini created a wax portrait of Marina Torlonia in 1935.[25]
Marriages
Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi was married twice, her husbands being:
- Francis Xavier Shields (1909–1975), the American amateur tennis player.[26] They married on 13 June 1940, in North Conway, New Hampshire,[27] and divorced in 1950. The Shieldses had two children: a son, Francis Alexander Shields and a daughter, Marina Shields.
- Edward W. Slater, an architect and partner at architectural firm Slater and Chiat, whom she married on 29 December 1950.[28][29] They had one son, Edward Torlonia Slater (born 1955).
Torlonia was the paternal grandmother of American actress Brooke Shields, the daughter of her son Francis Alexander Shields.[30][31]
Death
Torlonia died on 15 September 1960, in an automobile accident in Piacenza, Italy, shortly after leaving the wedding of her nephew Marco Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, to princess Orsetta Caracciolo, niece of film director Luchino Visconti.[32] Duke Raffaele Canevaro di Zoagli and his mother-in-law, Eleanor Terry, were also killed in the accident.[33][34][35]
Ancestry
References
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