April 22, 1930
Court officials in Rome are "expecting within a short time an announcement" of the engagement of the Duke of Spoleto, son of the Duke of Aosta, a cousin of Victor Emmanuel, and Infanta Beatriz, the elder daughter of King Alfonso XIII, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
The Duke of Spoleto is the grandson of Prince Amadeo, who reigned as King of Spain for several years from 1870 to 1873, "during the Carlist uprising."
This engagement is expected to be "the sequel to the visit" of the duke and his mother, the Duchess of Aosta, to Spain, during the Easter holidays. They were guests of King Alfonso XIII and his family in Madrid and Seville.
The arrangements were made by the Duchess of Aosta, who arrived in Spain several days before her son.
There are reports that this marriage "may soothe some of the ruffled feelings in Spain over the marriage last winter" of Crown Prince Umberto and Princess Marie-José of Belgium.
According to "court gossip," King Alfonso had hoped that the Italian Crown Prince "might be a match for one of his daughters," but his plan did not come to fruition. It has been suggested that Alfonso did not attend the Italian royal wedding because of the snub to his daughters.
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