Rosa Vercellana

Pink Vercellana ( born June 3, 1833 in Nice, † December 26, 1885 in Pisa) was the second, morganatic wife of the Italian king Victor Emmanuel II

Origin

Pink Vercellana was the daughter of the officer Giovanni Battista Vercellana from Moncalvo d' Asti and his wife Teresa Griglio and had two sisters, Adelaide and Domenico.

The military career of the father as a drum major began in the Imperial Napoleonic army. After Napoleon's return from Elba he refused to join the imperial army and was instead an officer in the Royal Guard of King Charles Albert.

Relationship to King Victor Emanuel

1847 the family lived in Racconigi, where his father was employed as a royal gamekeepers. There, the 14 -year-old Rosa met for the first time on the then 24 -year-old Crown Prince Victor Emmanuel, who was already married to Adelaide of Austria and had four children. The first meeting with the still minors were strictly kept secret so as not incurring the displeasure of King Charles Albert and violating the law, which prohibited the seduction of minors. Rosa, who could neither read nor write, and only Piedmontese dialect said, but was allowed to live in an annex of the hunting lodge of Stupinigi.

The Crown Prince had already had at this time some extramarital liaisons with whom he fathered children, some of them have even been recognized by the court and received title and appanages. These relationships, however, lasted only briefly, those to Rosa but for the rest of his life.

1849 Victor Emmanuel became king. After Queen Adelaide died shortly thereafter, and the love affair was with the " Bela Rosin ' ( Piedmontese for" Beautiful Pink " ) in public more and more public. On April 11, 1858 King appointed his mistress Countess of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda and bought for them Sommariva Perno the castle. In 1864 Rosa moved into the Palais La Pietraia to Florence and on October 18, 1869 married the king his longtime lover in a church ceremony, but without crown to the queen. The civil marriage took place in Rome on 7 October 1877. Only three months later, the king died. Pink survived him by only seven years and spent the remaining years of the Palazzo Feltrami in Pisa, whom the king had bought for their daughter Vittoria.

The Royal Court did not allow Rosa to be buried alongside her husband in the Roman pantheon, as they had no royal status. The sons therefore decided to erect a copy of the Pantheon in Turin, which was called the Turin vernacular " Mausoleum della Bela Rosin ".

The recognition of the nobility has never received pink, by the people, but it was all the more loved and immortalized in the folk song " La bela Gigogin ".

Progeny

The marriage pink with King Victor Emmanuel and had two children:

• Vittoria Guerrieri ( born December 2, 1848 † December 29, 1905 )
• Emanuele Filiberto Guerrieri (* March 16, 1851, † December 25, 1894 ), Count of Mirafiori and Fontanafredda

Source

Centre d' Études of Dynasties Royales Européenes

• Spouse of a famous person
• Born in 1833
• Died in 1885
• Woman
• Person ( Nice)