The princess battling to keep a €300m roof over her head
telegraph.co.ukRita Carpenter, 72, correctly styled as La Principessa Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi, will one day be told on screen. Visually, it’s got it all, from the Playboy centrefolds (two of them) to the ceiling painting by Caravaggio, the only one in the world, in which your eye is drawn straight up into the naked crotches of the three figures, all self-portraits (‘he certainly didn’t over-embellish himself…’).
Nor is the tale short on drama: when our conversation turns to Succession, the HBO series about a squabbling billionaire family, she shrieks, ‘That’s nothing!
Not compared to what I’m going through.’ She is referring to the ongoing litigation with the three adult sons of her late husband, the Principe Nicolò Boncompagni Ludovisi, whose lineage goes back to the Holy Roman Empire.
Soon after his death, in 2018, his heirs began to question her right to stay in the Villa Aurora, the family palace in Rome.
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