Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe [Paperback] Moorehead, Caroline

Benito Mussolini's favourite child was a chain-smoking, rebellious aristocrat who loved fast cars, expensive clothes, and dangerous men. As Italy's unofficial First Lady, Edda Mussolini Ciano had more power than most politicians — hosting diplomats, befriending Hitler's inner circle, and editing her father's speeches. But when her husband, Italy's Foreign Minister, voted to depose Il Duce in 1943, the Mussolini family turned murderous. Caroline Moorehead unearths the astonishing true story of a woman who went from Fascist princess to desperate fugitive, smuggling state secrets across the Swiss border while her father signed her husband's death warrant. Edda survived the war, but never escaped the shadow of her surname. A gripping portrait of complicity, betrayal, and what it means to be born into history's worst families.