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Edda Ciano, Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari (née Mussolini; 1 September 1910 – 9 April 1995) was the daughter of Benito Mussolini, fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Her husband, the fascist propagandist and Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, was executed in January
Mar 7, 2023 · Although Edda Mussolini Ciano pleaded with her father for the release of her husband, Count Galeazzo Ciano, per The Washington Post, the count was shot by a firing squad in April 1944. Edda subsequently renounced her father — and the family name.
Dec 13, 2022 · Edda Ciano, née Edda Mussolini, was the headstrong favourite child of Il Duce. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in 1938, with Galeazzo Ciano seen just to Hitler’s right. Germany and Italy would enter a new political and military alliance the following year, dubbed the ‘Pact of Steel’.
Apr 10, 1995 · Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, the eldest daughter and a close adviser of Italy's Fascist dictator, whose husband was executed after he opposed her father's rule, died Saturday in a...
On 24 April 1930, when he was 27 years old, Ciano married Benito Mussolini's daughter Edda Mussolini, and they had three children (Fabrizio, Raimonda and Marzio), though he was known to have had several affairs while married.
The bestselling author of A Train in Winter returns with the definitive story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy, whose life had more twists...
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Edda Mussolini Ciano was the firstborn child of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his wife Rachele Guidi. The eldest of five, she had one sister Anna Maria and three brothers, Vittorio, Bruno, and Romano (father of right-wing lawmaker Allessandra Mussolini).
Mar 23, 2023 · In Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe, her timely biography of Mussolini’s “eccentric, clever and mercurial” eldest daughter, Edda, Caroline Moorehead shows how deeply ingrained that heritage is.
Dec 3, 2022 · Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter and his confidante during 20 years of fascist rule. She acted as envoy to both Germany and Britain, helping steer Italy to join forces with Hitler.
