DUKE OF SPOLETO
Arrives At U.S. Naval Base Under Escort
APPOINTED CROATIAN KING Rec. noon. LONDON, Sept. 28. The Duke of Spoleto, who was appointed King of Croatia, but never assumed the Crown, has arrived at an American naval base in the Mediterranean. He was aboard a private yacht escorted by an Italian destroyer.
Brother of the former Italian Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief 'in Abyssinia, the Duke of Aosta, who died in Nairobi early last year while a prisoner of war after being captured in the East African campaign, the Duke of Spoleto had close connections with England, being a grandson of the Comte de Paris, who lived in exile in that country. He was educated in England and entered the Italian JNavy, being only a youth when the war ended. After travels in South America and Africa he organised, in 1929, a successful scientific expedition to the Karakoram Mountains, one of the least known of the Himalayas, with. glaciers considered to ue the largest in the world apart from the Polar regions. He later re-entered the navy.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 231, 29 September 1943, Page 3
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