The reformed rake is a familiar figure in the religious canon from the parable of the prodigal son onwards. Princess Alessandra Borghese, 44-year-old scion of one of the grandest of Italian noble ...

Princess Alessandra Borghese is a descendent of one of Italy’s best known aristocratic families, famous for its popes, cardinals and a glorious villa and park in the center of Rome. But despite her ...

Her family tree includes the pope who put the finishing touches on St. Peter's Basilica, a cardinal who amassed one of Europe's greatest art collections and one of Italy's two patron saints.

Princess Alessandra Borghese lives in a stately converted army barracks overlooking the violet-hued Mediterranean on Panarea’s Via Vincenzella, a narrow cobblestone footpath overgrown with frangipani ...

Alessandra Borghese's personal wealth - her mother, Countess Fabrizia Citterio, was one of the heirs to the San Pellegrino water fortune- funded her very own cultural centre in Rome, and she married ...