The Italian Wife: a breath-taking and heartbreaking pre-WWII romance set in Italy

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Ironically, if Berlusconi had not interceded, claiming she was the niece of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian despot, the case might have ended there.

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Understandably, when we moved from a young relationship to something more serious, she expected clearer demonstrations of how I felt. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, left, greets Berlusconi during a meeting in Sirte on 10 February 2004 Perhaps the most surprising part of the Italian crisis is that Berlusconi has emerged as a selfless voice of reason Born in 1936 in Milan to a bank clerk father and housewife mother, he attended a Catholic college, where he began a complicated relationship with the Church, which supported him until the mounting allegations of sleaze “superseded the limits of decency” in the view of at least one weekly Catholic newspaper. However, the more time we spent together, the more obvious our different expectations of how to show love became.

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I’d agreed to go with her to a childhood friend’s wedding and all I could feel was a wave of panic. How do they know who I am? Why does it sound like I’m already a fixture? Isn’t there some kind of process to this? In 1994, he took 21 per cent of the vote in the general election and found himself prime minister, beginning a two-decade domination of Italian politics through which he shamelessly advanced his own interests.

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Maggie and I first met at university in London but it wasn’t until a chance encounter at Pisa airport a couple of years later – me travelling, her in her native land – that we got to see each other in a different context and went from classmates to something more. Berlusconi raises the Champions League trophy aloft alongside AC Milan players after they beat Liverpool 2-1 in the 2007 final My experience of true love has been magnified by cultural difference but there’s a universal lesson here.

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When a 17-year-old Moroccan nightclub dancer known as Ruby the Heartstealer, who had been arrested for a petty crime, told police she knew Berlusconi, the claim set in motion a chain of events that would bring about the mogul’s downfall. That said, I’d like to think I’ve adopted some of the Italian style in how I show love in our marriage. Then, of course, I got down on one knee – much to the chagrin of my mother-in-law, who didn’t get the same gesture from Maggie’s dad!

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Relationships are different, of course, but the same principles apply. Grand romantic gestures tend to be rare, and for me to look someone in the eye and tell them how I felt about them was always deeply uncomfortable. I used to simply hope my affection shone through with my actions rather than my words. Maggie was far more outwardly affectionate. She would have no problem using terrifying words like ‘love’ and telling me, both in person and via text, how happy being together made her. English–Arabic English–Bengali English–Catalan English–Czech English–Danish English–Hindi English–Korean English–Malay English–Marathi English–Russian English–Tamil English–Telugu English–Thai English–Turkish English–Ukrainian English–VietnameseverifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{

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The former Italian prime minister with George W Bush, right, and first lady Laura Bush, on his arrival at Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch in Texas in 2003You learn to see its depth in the squeeze of a hand or the twitch of a half-smile. It’s about the cup of tea made unasked at the end of a rough day, the furtive glances at a party, the tipsy laughter on a bus ride home on Saturday night. It’s yours, and that ownership is more meaningful than any preconceptions you had. A modest plan to make his homes more attractive by offering a local cable TV service, Telemilano, which showed light entertainment and reruns of American soap operas such as Dallas, grew into a network of local channels until, by the end of the 1980s, his trash TV empire of game shows and barely clothed hostesses came to dominate the Italian airwaves. The “Clean Hands” corruption inquiries that took out a generation of Italian politicians eventually provided the motivation for that move. Power, he reasoned, would not only protect himself from prosecutors but allow him to defend his businesses.