San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-08
Princess Marries Commoner for Love
BY MILTON BRONNER.

| Rome, April s.-When the beau
| tiful Princes Yolanda, eldest daugh
ter of the king and queen of Italy
marries Count Calvi di Bergolo, Mon
day, she sets a landmark in the his
tory of the House of Savoy, on,
of the Oldest reigning families in Eu
1 rope.
For the first time a daughter o
the Savoys marries outside of roy
atty.
Princess Mary of England recently
set her the example, but girls OF
the British royal family previously
had welded commoners.
Princess Mary married a man be
longing to a house ennobled for cen.
turtles. Princess Yolonda is marrying
a man whose house has been cnnobled
only for a bare century.
The title of Mary's husband was
gilded by fortune estimated at
SIS, 100000. Yolanda's bridegroom
has only modest estates.
But all Italy is rejoicing because
the husband is of Yolanda's own race
and religion and was wounded in de-
Tending Italian soil against the Aus
trian invaders.
Marriage for Love.
This is a marriage for love, not
for reasons of state; hence it is
celebrated with great simplicity. No
invitations have been forwarded to
foreign courts.
When Princess Yolanda becomes the
bride of Count Calvi di Bergolo, the
bridegroom has the. laugh on all the
gossips and wiseacres of Rome, Brus-
sells and London.
For he, a man of humble station
compared with a royal princess, car
ried off the lovely bride that gossip
long was busy handing variously to
a half dozen princes and to another
half dozen of the richest young mobiles
in Italy.
1t was Known in a casual sort of
way that Princess Yolanda had met
Count Calvi two year ago at Tor di
Quinto, near Rome, where the count
has been detailed by the army to be
inspector of the School of Equita-
ton.
Princess interested.
Yolanda is enthusiastic about
horses and she became interested in
the good-looking young soldier who
rode like a centaur.
She met him later in Rome, when
be raced some of his own horses and
even rode them when gentlemen
jockeys competed. But the Roman
know-it-alls just winked when they
discerned the adoring look in Calvfs
face.
The gossips recounted the names
Of the men who really had chance:
Prince Nicholas of Rumania. the
crown prince of Greece, the Prince
of Wales and the crown prince of
Belgium.
Then there were some Of the
noblest Roman families-tbe Chigi,
Colonia and Orsini, who had young
er sons who we're often seen riding,
hunting and dancing with Yolanda.
Sees Count in London.
All Italy was mystified last June
when Yolanda, accompanied by only
one lady in waiting went to London
incognito to spend ten days.
She lived simply and went where
she pleased. Where she mainly
pleased was the international horse
show, italian cavalrymen were COM
peting in some of the events; one OF
these cavalrymen was Count Calvi,
who won a number Of prizes and
whose riding was enthusiastically
applauded by a certain dark-haired
young lady.
But even when Calvi returned to
Rome and became a frequent visitor
to the Quirinal palace and companion
Of the princess when she went rid
ing to the hounds. the wise ones
didn't catch on. So the announce
ment of her engagement to Calvi came
as a big surprise.
The Counts Family.
The Di Bergolo's are compare
lively a new family, as titled fami-
lies 90 in Italy. The first count was
Lazarro Calvi. who got his title from
the king Of Sardinia in 1916.