Woman’s Day even claims that Chiara has already met the indomitable Danish queen who is apparently keeping a close eye on her grandson and eventual heir.
Quite what she will make of Chiara and her family will be interesting to learn. She has, after all, welcomed commoners into the family – Christian’s mother Mary, the Crown Princess of Denmark, is an Australian who met Frederik, the heir to the Danish throne in a Sydney pub when he was there to watch the 2000 summer Olympics.
Chiara, however, is very definitely a member of a royal family – even if it is a distinctly Ruritanian one. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was the largest sovereign state in Italy before the country was unified in 1861.
The island of Sicily and a large area surrounding Naples were split between two crowns during the middle ages, and when the Spanish Bourbon royal family took over both kingdoms in 1816, it became the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
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