Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy
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- For the Duchess of Modena, Archduchess of Austria-Este and Jacobite heiress of the same name, see Maria Beatrice of Savoy
Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy (Maria Beatrice Elena Margherita Ludovica Caterina Ramona di Savoia (born 2 February 1943) is the youngest daughter of Italy's last king, Umberto II and his queen, Marie José of Belgium. Known as "Titti" to family and friends. She was known as a rebellious princess, having numerous love affairs in her twenties, most notably with actor Maurizio Arena. She later suffered from alcoholism and attempted suicide a number of times.
Maria Beatrice married Luis Rafael Reyna-Corvalán y Dillon (April 18, 1939-murdered 1999) in 1970. In 1971 their second child died shortly after birth. In 1994, her eldest child died in a fall from a window in Boston, where he was going to university. The circumstances were mysterious surrounding his death, though officially it was declared a suicide. The next year she separated from her husband, after a long unhappy marriage. In 1999, her husband was murdered in his villa in Mexico. The crime was very disturbing, apparently his chauffeur had strangled him with the string of his bath wrap. Also there was a bootlace bound around his penis. This death too was shrouded in mystery as Maria Beatrice, nor her only surviving child Azaea, never came to claim Reyna's body and neither attending his funeral. In days after her husband's murder police were unable to locate Maria Beatrice,though later she was found in the Bahamas were she said she was on vacation at the time of her husband's death. Today she lives in Mexico and New York. She had issue:
- Rafael Reyna y de Saboya (1970-1994), committed suicide
- Patrizio Reyna y de Saboya (1971-1971)
- Azaea Reyna y de Saboya (1973- ), married 1996 Arturo Pando y Mundet (1971- )
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