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15
Birth, Famine,
and Bitter Peace
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities,
of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of
family disagreements.
—Queen Elizabeth II
In March 1648 the six-months pregnant princess of Rossano, ignoring
the decree of exile, once more clattered into Rome with her
husband. This time she was here to stay, and a convent wouldn’t do.
She moved into the magnificent Palazzo Farnese. Built in the mid–
sixteenth century by the family of Pope Paul III, with some decorations
designed by none other than Michelangelo, the imposing palace belonged
to her cousin the duke of Parma. It was a wise choice of residence;
should the pope’s guards try to throw her out, she could claim
diplomatic immunity.
The princess had a very specific reason for flouting Innocent’s mandate
to remain in the countryside. Teodoro Amayden wrote, “The princess
is said to have come to Rome so that there is no opposition made to
the truth of the birth.” 1 Giving birth in exile was dangerous. The princess
knew that her mother-in-law could cast doubt upon the child’s