Milestones, Jul. 12, 1937

Born. To Prince Alessandro Torlonia and Princess Beatriz Torlonia, elder daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain; a second child, a son; in Rome. Prince Alessandro's mother was Elsie Moore, of New York. At the bedside of the infant, Alfonso and Victoria Eugenia separated since they fled Spain in 1931, met for the first time in six years, had a private lunch together.

Married. Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 21, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt; classmate at Groton and Harvard, from which he graduated last fortnight, of his distant cousin Franklin...

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