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His family was so poor that Rachel didn't even have a pair of shoes to school. Was the teacher Rosa Maltoni in reply before the baby came into class. Because the teacher did not was in good health, Sometimes it was replaced by one of his sons, Benito. It was at school so that they met the first time Rachele and Benito. The two, Despite the opposition of the families, they were married on 17 December 1915 in a hospital room in Treviglio, During World War I. The two had already had Edda in 1910: It is especially the fact that his daughter has been registered at the registry office as daughter of Mussolini and di madre ignota.
Donna Rachele wasn't used to attending high society, but when her husband became Prime Minister and then increasingly a significant international political figure, He could not refrain from meetings like the one with Queen Margrethe. What worried her most was the Chief wife of not being up to the other diners for the anonymity of his grey clothes and his gait awkward and insecure.
Rachel fought tooth and nail for her husband to stop seeing other women, in particular he had a direct clash with Claretta Petacci, clash that went so far in the use of hands.
The last time Rachel saw her man was the 17 April 1945 at Villa Feltrinelli, on Lake Garda. He heard the 29 April 1945, through an extraordinary Edition of the unit, that her husband had been executed and that his body was exposed, along with that of Justin, in piazzale Loreto. The same day she was arrested by partisans and transported, After several intermediate stages, in the prison camp of Terni. It is during his captivity that Donna Rachele begins to write, together with his son Romano, your diary.
The family was later transferred to confinement in Ischia Mussolini, where he remained until 1957. The same year, after exhausting battles, Donna Rachele managed to regain the corpse of her husband, whose brain had been studied by several American team. Rachel died in Forlì in 1979.
Maria
