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Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, DBE, OM (''Italy''), (12 February 1914 – 7 March 2007), was the wife of Conservative Party politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft. Lady Thorneycroft helped establish the Venice in Peril Fund and was a noted philanthropist and patroness of the arts. ==Early life== ''Carla Maria Concetta Francesca Malagola, Contessa Cappi'' was the elder daughter of the Italian Count Guido Malagola Cappi and his wife, Alexandra (née Dunbar-Marshall) who had come over with her mother from Natchez, Mississippi to settle in Europe. She was born in Paris, and grew up in Venice, where her paternal grandfather Professor Carlo Malagola of Bologna kept the archives at the Frari basilica, and then in Rome. Her father was an interior designer and a talented photographer, leaving a wealth of family history images for the future. Alexandra and Guido lived in Venice and Rome and Carla was educated by Roman Catholic nuns, along with her siblings, Anna-Viola and Francesco. Francesco, later known as Francis Dunbar Marshall Malagola (1918–2001), was an artist whose works are conserved in a wide range of European collections and museums. In 1930, Carla and her mother met Major Mervyn Thorneycroft while on holiday on Capri, and later visited his home, Dunston Hall in Staffordshire, where she first met her future second husband, the Major's son, Peter Thorneycroft, newly commissioned in the Royal Artillery. They were quickly engaged, but the engagement was broken off after she returned to Rome. She married Count Giorgio Roberti, a chemist, in 1934, aged 20, and had a son and a daughter. During the Second World War, she served as a nurse with the Red Cross at the Principessa Piemonte hospital in Rome. The hospital was commandeered to treat wounded German soldiers, so she treated Italians at her apartment on the Via Panama. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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