Background
She was born in Genoa on January 22, 1914 as Elvina dei Medici del Vascello, daughter of Giacomo dei Marchesi Medici del Vascello (1883–1949) and his wife, née Olga Leumann (d 1966).
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Elvina Pallavicini
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The Prince was a military pilot in the Regia Aeronautica and became Missing in action on August 1, 1940 after an air fight over the Mediterranean (he was officially declared dead by an Italian court ten years later, in 1950). The spouses" only daughter, Maria Camilla, was born after his death. During the Nazi occupation of Rome after the Armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces, Princess Pallavicini supported Italian Royalist partisans and was later awarded bronze medal of military valor for that.
Starting from 1977, Princess Elvina Pallavicini led a group of Black Nobility that provided support for Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
She was also actively involved in politics, in particular, supporting the policies of the United States Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Princess Elvina Pallavicini, sometimes called the “black queen” or the “first lady” of Roman nobility, died on August 29, 2004 at Cortina d"Ampezzo.
Her funeral in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina was attended by numerous representatives of Italian government as well as nobility.
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