In 1929 the Afghan royal family settled in Italy. King Amanullah, a sovereign too progressive for his time, was forced to abdicate by the most conservative faction of the country that was fomented by England and he went into exile .
Adelah was the fifth of eight children. She was four years old when she begins to spend her childhood and then her happy youth in Rome, in the large Liberty villa of Via Orazio, in the Prati district. World War II has just ended when the princess meets up with an old childhood friend, Armando. He was a young officer, returned to Rome after a long period of captivity in Germany. A overwhelming love blossoms between the two. Adelah’s family will never accept the union between her, a Afghan, Muslim, royal princess and Armando a simple , Italian, Catholic bourgeois.
With the determination and courage she has inherited from her mother, Queen Soraya, Adelah makes her choice of freedom:
she secretly marries Armando and flees to Colombia with him. The couple stayed in South America for two years and then they returned to Italy after the birth of the first of four daughters. The reckless choice of Adelah has inevitably put her on a collision course with the royal family. Her father, the former king, declared that she was a dead daughter to him and condemned his beloved Adelah to a personal exile.

Original/Alternative Title: Adelah of Afghanistan - rebellious princess

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