Hello,
Thanks for your answer.
You are right, Marie Bonaparte, who was already discussed here was really a very interesting and fascinating person, especially how she connected sciene with nobility, and the most insteresting was to me, that she completely changed her life in the fourties of her life.
I had once a phone call with her grandson Carlo Alessandro della Torre a Tasso, son of Eugenie of Greece (Marie Bonapartes and Prince Georgs daughter) and of Raimondo della Torre e Tasso. He is a very kind and "simple" person, even if he has an own castle at Triest together with his wife Veronique Lantz, and his children, Massimiliano, Dimitri and Constanza.
He asked me to visit it once...but in general the most Bonaparte descendants are very busy people 8-)
So a longer contact is not easy. I never achieved it (until now) The most of the Bonaparte descendants today (especially those of Lucien Bonaparte) married over the female lines into the families of Italian (or french) counts. Seeing the whole genealogy (for example at "Wordroots") it shows that there are almost more Italian descendants!
One descendant of Lucien (Prince of Canino) and Joseph Bonaparte (former king of Spain) married in 1952 the granddaugher of Benito Mussolini (I made a topic here, but I think the moste people avoid it...
. Alessandros niece was not very "communicative" concerning this facts, when I tried to ask her :-?
My favourite of today in Prince Charles Napoleon I must say. But his views are sometimes discussed, especially by the conservative people of Corsica. When Charles wanted to become deputy major there some people (so I have read) held the oponion that he is not the right person for this task, because in his life, which he had spend mostly in France (and not Corsica) he was not concerned enough with Corsicas special problems (razzism, terrorism...). It´s quite that Charles doesn´t call himself a Bonapartist, he does not belong at all to the conservatives , but to the lefts (almost a bit socialist).
His views are very open and modern, and I think this was also with a reason for his disheritage by his father Louis (1914-97), who must have been completely different in his views and his caracter concerning being a Bonaparte-heir of the 20 the century. Louis also disliked very much Charles divorce from Beatrice of Bourbon-Sicily and his remarriage with the civil Corsican Lady Francoise Valliccioni...
But there where also many other difficulties between father and son (you can read in interviews of Charles) From his appearance I also like Charles, for me he looks so elegant because of his size. He must be almost two metres (I think, 1,95, I have read). His face is very friendly and nice (so for me)
I would be interested to know what others of this discussion board think of Charles and his tasks and work for Corsica. Should he continue it and should be have more political influence as a Bonaparte?
I have also read that he wants to become a member of the European Parliament (like Otto von Habsburg 8-)
Interesting are also his ansistors, he is not only a direct descendant of Jerome Bonaparte (king of Westphalia under Napoleon I.) , but also greatgrandson of Leopold II of the Belgians, a direct descendant of Louis Philippe and of Louis XIV. He has as much Bourbon-blood as the count of Paris for example and I think, that´s interesting, because the Bonapartes and the Bourbons were always enemies! And his children are also half Bourbon and half Bonaparte (as it was already said here) through their mothers side (Beatrice)
Charles has also a lot of Habsburg ansistors, all known Habsburg emperors (until Franz I/II) are his ansistors
