GIFT TO ITALY
MUSSOLINI ACCEPTS EARL OF ROSEBERY'S OFFER. The Earl of Rosebery has offered his villa— the "Villa Rosebery'"— at Naples to the Government of Italy for use as an Italian "Chequers." The offer has heen acceptqd by Signor Mussolini. The estate, with extensive grounds runnning down to the shores of the Bay of Naples, was s l favourite residence of tbs. late Earl Rosebery, the f ormer Prime Minister of Britain. Formerly it belonged to Josep, King of Naples. Later it became the property of the Gount de Syracuse, brother ■ of King Bomba, the last King of Naples, eventually passing to a French railway magnate, from whom it was bought by Lord Rosebery in 1897; • Toward the end of his life the late Lord Rosebery presented the estatC to the British Embassy in Rome for use as a summer residence, the terms of the gift providing that the estate should be returnable if the Ambassador could not use it. With changing times the British Ambassador found, a few years ago, that he could not spare the time to go very often to the Villa Rosebery, and it was returned to the present peer.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 7
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