Leticia saboya, duquesa de aosta
I am currently reading a nice bio on Queen Maria Pia.
She was completely devoted to her sister Clotilde and died shortly after her death.
Maria Pia was also very devoted to all her sabaudian family and felt rather unloved by her father.
Concerning Letizia, Maria Pia went to Italy with her son Carlos (at the time still unmarried) and was surprised that Clotilde was not with the rest of the family, having excused herself with a note saying that Letizia was having some exams.
Amedeo of Aosta, however, explained her sister that Clotilde choose not to be present because there have been rumours that D.Carlos and Letizia might get engaged. Maria Pia immediately put an end to the rumours saying that such engagement was utterly nonsense, nobody had considered Letizia for D. Carlos and that she would like very much to see her sister and meet her niece.
Letizia was considered rather unmarriable, due to her father. Maria Pia urged her brother to find her an italian prince or duke so that she would not remain a spinnster.
In the end, she married her uncle Amedeo of Aosta but the marriage lasted only 16 months.
Having becomed a widow at 23, was she so unmarriable ? Did any projects arose after her husband's death ?
Her aunt Elisabeth of Saxony (a widow at 25), remarried.
The book suggests she married out of despite.
When she became a widow, she hoped for marrying her brother-in-law, Victor Emanuelle II, himself a widower, but he made clear to her that he wasn't the slightest interested.
So she married Niccolo Rapallo, without V-E's consentment, and made his life miserable. He became a social outcast and had to abandon his military career.
Can someone post a photo of Rapallo ? Never seen one before...
