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Marina Torlonia di Civitella Cesi

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Mother
  
Mary Elsie Moore


Name
  
Marina di

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Father
  
Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi

Born
  
22 October 1916Palazzo Nunez-Torlonia, Rome, Italy (
1916-10-22
)

Spouse
  
Edward W. Slater (m. 1950), Frank Shields (m. 1940)

Children
  
Francis Alexander Shields, Edward Torlonia Slater, Cristiana Marina Shields

Siblings
  
Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi

Parents
  
Mary Elsie Moore, Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi


Similar
  
Mary Elsie Moore, Francis Alexander Shields, Frank Shields

Died
  
15 September 1960 (aged 43) Piacenza, Italy

Noble family
  
House of Torlonia

Nationality
  
Italian-American

Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (22 October 1916 – 15 September 1960) was an Italian-American aristocrat best known as the paternal grandmother of the actress and model Brooke Shields.

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Family

Royal Musings: Princess Torlonia dead at 53

Torlonia was born in Rome, at Palazzo Núñez-Torlonia, the youngest daughter of Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi and his American wife, Mary Elsie Moore, a daughter of Charles Arthur Moore, a shipping broker and hardware manufacturer from Connecticut. The Torlonia family gained its fortune in the administration of Vatican finances.

She had three siblings:

  • Donna Olimpia Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Chesi (1909-1924)
  • Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, the husband of Infanta Beatriz of Spain (an aunt of King Juan Carlos I of Spain).
  • Donna Cristina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi (1913-1974)

    • Marriages

    Donna Marina Torlonia dei Principi di Civitella-Cesi was married twice, her husbands being:

  • Francis Xavier Shields (1909–1975), the American amateur tennis player. They married on 13 June 1940, in North Conway, New Hampshire, and divorced in 1950. The Shieldses had two children: a son, Francis Alexander Shields (father of the actress and model Brooke Shields) and a daughter, Marina Shields.
  • Edward W. Slater, an architect and partner in Slater Chiat, whom she married on 29 December 1950. They had one son, Edward Torlonia Slater (born 1955).

    • Death

    Marina Slater passed away on September 15, 1960, due to an automobile accident in Piacenza, Italy, just after attending the wedding of her nephew Marco Torlonia, the 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, alongside Princess Orsetta Caracciolo, who is the niece of the renowned film director Luchino Visconti. The accident also claimed the lives of Duke Raffaele Canevaro of Galluzzo and Countess Eleanor Terry.

    References

    Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi Wikipedia
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