Valerie Keun married the Italian artistocrat Prince Don Livio Guiseppe Borghese in Smyrna 31 August 1901 but they had divorced by 1912. Don Livio Borghese died in Athens on 26th Nov 1939. During WW1 Don Livio was in exile in the UK and worked as a radio operator and after the war became an attache for Italy. Pr Valerie Borghese [nee Keun] died in Catania 31 Jan 1956. The above letter cover, sent to Cairo in 1912, has her father’s monogram Albert Augustus Keun. The letter covers below to Smyrna is from 1913, to Cyprus & Cairo from 1914 and to England from 1915, showing how much she moved during this time of world tension. By 1925 she appears to be in Nice, France and her father had moved his business to Athens. | |