There’s always one at every wedding - the embarrassing guest who causes a scene. Even, it appears, at the royal marriage of the decade. Italian media reported that last weekend’s wedding of Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia of Spain ended in a punch-up, which left an Italian aristocrat nursing bruised lips. Leaving a dinner given by King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia on the evening of their son’s nuptials, the heir to the Italian throne, Prince Vittorio Emanuele, was said to have hit his cousin and royal rival Duke Amedeo on the steps of the Spanish royal residence. One report said the Duke was punched twice in the mouth and would have fallen to the ground had he not been caught by the deposed Queen Anne-Marie of Greece. The daily, La Repubblica, said Duke Amedeo was then helped inside Zarzuela Palace, where an unidentified Arab potentate applied an ice pack to his bruised lips. La Stampa quoted Duke Amedeo as saying it was "an unpleasant business that does not deserve further comment".
Those wacky lovable royals. You can dress them up but you can’t take them out. |