Marie José of Belgium Claretta Petacci, claimed in her diary that in 1937 the then princess and wife of the heir to the throne tried and failed to seduce the dictator at a beach resort near Rome. However, Mussolini's son, Romano, claims that the princess and dictator entered into a sexual relationship. In 1943, the Crown Princess involved herself in vain attempts to arrange a separate peace treaty between Italy and the United States; her interlocutor from the Vatican was Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, a senior diplomat who later became Pope Paul VI. Her attempts were not sponsored by the king and Umberto was
The Last Mistress film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 25 critics. Blateau,Anne-Élisabeth. "Une vieille maîtresse sans Breillat" (A Last Mistress without Breillat), in "Carré d'Art : Barbey d'Aurevilly, Byron, Dalí, Hallier", by Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Anagramme éd., Paris, 2008, pp. 143–149. The Last Mistress The Last Mistress (, literally "An old mistress") is a 2007 French-Italian film based on the novel "Une vieille maîtresse" by the French writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. It stars Asia Argento and Fu'ad Aït Aattou as the two main characters. The movie was directed by the French filmmaker Catherine Breillat and was entered into the 2007