Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Was Mussolini’s wilful daughter his éminence grise?

The extent of Edda Ciano’s influence may never be known, says Caroline Moorehead – but she was lucky to escape her father and husband’s fates

A newspaper photograph of Edda and Galeazzo Ciano leaving the Vatican after their wedding, 24 April 1930. [Bridgeman]
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