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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Princess Maria Gloria (Lolita) Pignatelli Aragona Cortez 1927-2015

_. Princess Maria Gloria {Lolita} Pignatelli Aragona Cortez (the Hon Mrs Mansel Child-Villiers), who died on Jersey, 9 February, 2015,aged 87, was the former wife of the late Squadron Leader the Hon Edward Mansel Child-Villiers (1913-80), a younger son of the 8th Earl of Jersey (1873-1923), by his wife the former Lady Cynthia Almina Constance Mary Needham, dau of the 3rd Earl of Kilmorey.

She was born in 1927, a daughter of Prince Antonio Pignatelli Aragona Cortez, Duke of Terranova, of Rome, by his wife the former Beatrice Molyneux, and married Mr Child-Villiers, as his second wife in 1946. They divorced in 1971. She leaves issue, a son (George Anthony) Robert, who was born in 1947, and daughters, Mary Ann (b 1951), and (Maria) Consuelo (;Lily), born in 1953.

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