4. Benito Mussolini / Edda Mussolini

5 Children of dictators and murderers who did not follow the example of their parents
Dictatorship in Italy: Benito Mussolini © revision.co.zw
5 Children of dictators and murderers who did not follow the example of their parents
Benito Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, and her husband, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Photo: © South China Morning Post

His father was the Italian dictator who allied with Adolf Hitler and took his country to war. This man married his eldest daughter, Edda, with the Count and Minister Galeazzo Ciano; when the latter did not vote for his father-in-law, he was accused of being a traitor and shot. It was when Edda renounced his surname; years later one of his sons (grandson of Mussolini) wrote the book When the grandfather shoots daddy.

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