Word: annunziata
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...Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
...Dictator Mussolini, by virtue of possessing the Order of the Annunziata, the highest Italian decoration, becomes the King's "cousin...
...Benito Mussolini, whose diplomatic tenacity consolidated by Treaty from the Yugo-Slavs what the sword and pen of the swashbuckling poet had made the great national ambitioin of the Italians, went the Order of the Annunziata, the highest honor that can be given by the Italian Crown. There are only seven in the order; the recipient is entitled to sit in the Royal presence and to .call the Sovereign "Cousin...
Benito Mussolini: "When I act as notary of the Crown at the marriage of Princess Yolanda and Count Calvi in April, the King will confer on me the Order of the Annunziata. That means I shall rank as a cousin of the King...