Marina Doria
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Princess Marina of Savoy is a Swiss former water skier. She competed three times at the Water Ski World Championships winning gold medals in 1955 and in 1957. She won the overall title in the European
Pictured in 1969 at Cape Canaveral
The Savoy family with Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma
Marina with her husband, Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy
Privilège du blanc
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The privilège du blanc is a custom of the Catholic Church that permits certain designated female royalty to wear white clothing during an audience with the pope. It is an exception to the traditional
Marina Doria
…Persepolis. They had one son, Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, Prince of Venice. As the spouse of the head of the House of Savoy, she was entitled to the Privilège du blanc, the ability to wear white garments when in an audience with the pope. She exercised this privilege on 18 May 2003 during a Catholic mass marking the…
Queen Elena of Italy and Crown Princess Marie-José wearing white garments in the presence of Pope Pius XII at the Quirinal Palace on 27 December 1939.
Charlene, Princess of Monaco, exercising the privilege during a meeting with Pope Francis on an official state visit to the Vatican