The altered Aosta Diamond Tiara was later worn, from Princess Claude de France, the Duchess of Aosta, on her wedding day, together with large diamond pendant earrings.
On 22 July 1964 Princess Claude married her second cousin, Prince Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Aostain Sintra.
He was the only son of Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, second cousin-once-removed of Italy's last king, Umberto II. Aimone was briefly made nominal head of an Italian puppet state during World War II as King Tomislav II of Croatia. Claude was the third Orleanist princess to hold the title Duchess of Aosta by marriage.
At the time of their wedding, Amedeo was a student at the Morosini Naval College in Venice, which his father had also attended. The couple met while attending the wedding of Infante Juan Carlos of Spain and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in May 1962 in Athens. They announced their engagement on 4 October 1963. The couple married in São-Pedro de Penaferrim, a parish church twelve miles from Lisbon.
The wedding had been planned for earlier in the month, but was rescheduled when King Umberto (godfather of the groom) was hospitalized for an abdominal operation.
A Savoy family council having met at King Umberto's residence in exile at Cimiez, France in the summer of 1963, another was held in London secretly at the king's hospital bedside to discuss the prospect of the king's only son Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, choosing to marry a commoner, Marina Doria, which had become the subject of much media speculation.
The wedding was attended by 300 guests, including King Umberto and the Prince and Princess of Spain.[3] Two days later the newlyweds received a nuptial blessing during an audience with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican.[3]
After the duke completed his duties as a naval officer, the couple were given the Borro by Aimone's mother, a large estate in the Tuscan village of San Giustino Valdarno, near Fiesole, Italy, where they cultivated vineyards. Occasionally they undertook dynastic responsibilities as representatives in Italy of King Umberto, but largely raised their children in the countryside.
Three children are from the couble :
Princess Bianca of Savoy-Aosta (b. Florence, 2 April 1966), married on 11 September 1988 in San Giustino Valdarno, Giberto, Count Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga (b. Rome, 5 July 1961), son of Leonardo, Count Arrivabene-Valenti-Gonzaga and Maria delle Grazie Brandolini d'Adda,
Prince Aimone of Savoy-Aosta (b. Florence, 13 October 1967); married in a civil ceremony on 16 September 2008, Princess Olga of Greece (b. Athens, 17 November 1971). The religious marriage took place on 27 September 2008 at Patmos, Greece
Princess Mafalda Giovanna of Savoy-Aosta (b. 20 September 1969); married, firstly 1994, Don Alessandro Ruffo di Calabria-Santapau dei principi di Palazzolo , divorced without issue. Mafalda married, secondly, Francesco Ferrante Carlo Napoleone, 10th Baron Lombardo di San Chirico.
Amedeo and Claude officially separated 20 July 1976, obtained a civil divorce 26 April 1982, and received an ecclesiastical annulment from the Roman Rota 8 January 1987. Both remarried.
Source:Wikipedia;Archive Ursula Butschal;
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