DUCE’S FIFTH CHILD
DAUGHTER FOR MUSSOLINI. ROMANCE OF YOUNG DAYS. Donna Rachele Mussolini recently gave birth to a daughter, who is to be given the names of Anna Maria. This is the Duce’s fifth child and his second daughter. The eldest daughter, Edda, now aged 19, is likely to visit England in the near future/ Donna Rachele is an interesting figure. Like her distinguished husband’s, her origin was of the humblest. She was a serving maid at the inn kept by neighbours of the Mussolinis, where Benito, then a fiery young Socialist, held forth on his political theories. A love affair sprang up between the young people, and they married. Throughout her husband’s stormy career Donna Rachele has never obtruded herself, preferring the role of housewife and mother to that of the First Lady in the land after the Royal Family. She has remained in Milan superintending her children’s education and providing that quiet refuge to which the Duce flies now and again to seek recuperation from the arduous cares of State.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 260, 1 November 1929, Page 8
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