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Mass in the Church of the Capuchin Friars in Santa Margherita Ligure, located between Villa Durazzo Centurione and the Genoese defensive tower on the port of the famous tourist resort of the Gulf of Tigullio, attached to Portofino, half of those present have blue blood, between the benches in the front rows historical names of the Italian aristocracy are recognized: Count Ludovico Boetti Villanis Audifredi di Cavallerleone (lawyer, former monarchist deputy of the Italian Social Movement and dignitary of the Order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzaro of the Royal House of Savoy) with his wife Franca Accusani of the barons of Retorto and Portanova, the baron Cesare Giovanni Jonghi Lavarini of Ornavasso (entrepreneur, former manager of Assimpredil and dignitary of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem) with his wife Alda Ganassini of the counts of Camerati and lords of Lumiago, the Baron Guglielmo Guidobono Cavalchini Garofoli, Count of Scioltze and lord of Carbonara (former Lombard delegate of the Sovereign Military Order of Ma lta) with his wife Countess Antonia of the Barbiano princes of Belgioioso, the noble Giuseppe De Francisco Mazzaccara of Celenza of the barons of Caruso (dignitary of the Constantinian Order of San Giorgio). In a quiet and
sober Sunday mass in August, the four main orders of knighthood recognized by both the Catholic Church and the Italian State were represented. But in Santa Margherita, where there is the splendid Pagana villa formerly of the Marquises Spinola, the masterful summer seat of Sovereign Military Order of Malta, in the summer, also Her Royal Highness Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy, sister
of Vittorio Emanuele and daughter of the last King of Italy, Umberto II, often meets there, usually in the company of the grand monarchical lady Silvana Fiolini Alessio and her Imperial Highness the Romanian Orthodox Byzantine Princess Alexandra Cantacuzino (cousin of the head of the family Pieter of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania); the first with a house in Rapallo, the second guest of friends on a yacht in Portofino. On holiday in Santa also the noble Raffaella Repetto of the Calcagno counts of Arenzano, and on a bicycle ride it is easy to meet Count Cesare Vernarecci di Fossombrone of the princes d’Anjou della Verna, both leaders of the very active international cultural association Aristocrazia Europea, represented in Liguria by the noble Fabrizio Pepe di Marabello who named the delegation to H.S.H.. the late Genoese patrician Stefano Durazzo, Marquis of Gabiano and Pontivrea, descendant of the famous dynasty of the Doges of Genoa who were also Kings of Corsica.
