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"La Domenica del Corriere"_4

17th February 1952 - H.M. Queen Elizabeth II.
Cover by Walter Molino.

25th April 1909 - The British sovrans and the Mother Empress of Russia arriving in Genoa.
Cover by Achille Beltrame.

17th January 1926 - On 4th January 1926, Mother Queen of Italy Margherita di Savoia dies.
The Savoia Family (Casa Savoia) was the reigning family of Italy from 1861 to 1946.
Cover by Achille Beltrame.

24th January 1924 - The solemn funeral of the Mother Queen of Italy Margherita di Savoia in the Pantheon in Rome.
Cover by Achille Beltrame.

29th January 1939 - Newly wed Princess Maria di Savoia and Prince Luigi di Borbone-Parma greet the crowd from the Quirinale in Rome.
Cover by Achille Beltrame.

3rd March 1940 - Little Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia, newborn daughter of Prince Umberto di Savoia and Princess Marie Josè of Belgium.
Cover by Achille Beltrame.

16th March 1958 - Princess Margaretha of Sweden is going to marry Robin Douglas-Home, former night-club pianist.
Cover by Walter Molino.

23th March 1958 - Empress of Persia Soraya don't let the Shah to marry a second wife and flee Teheran, getting ready to divorce.
Cover by Walter Molino.

27th April 1958 - Two Italian young men from Ventimiglia, a painter and a poet, tries to approach the ship that carried Princess Soraya. The painter wanted to give her a portrait, the poet to recite a poetry dedicated to her. The ship overturned the boat of the two young men.
Cover by Walter Molino.

31th July 1958 - Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visit a coal mine in Rothes (Fifeshire, Scotland).
Cover by Walter Molino.

31th August 1958 - Legendary Spanish bullfighter Luis Dominguin slips in the course of a bullfight and risks to be hit. Former Empress Soraya was in the audience.
Cover by Walter Molino.

19th October 1958 - Princess Margaret avoids to be run over and saves a kid.
Back cover by Walter Molino.

1st March 1959 - Princess Maria Gabriella di Savoia refuses to get engaged with Shah of Persia Reza Pahlavi.
Back cover by Walter Molino.

22nd March 1959 - Rumors about a fling of Princess Soraya with Prince Raimondo Orsini.
Cover by Walter Molino.

26th April 1959 - Prince Albert of Belgium and Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria newly engaged.
Back cover by Walter Molino.

5th July 1959 - Prince Albert of Belgium and Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria newly wed.
Cover by Walter Molino.

22th July 1959 - Prince Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia comes back above water too fast after a scuba diving.
Back cover by Walter Molino.

6th December 1959 - Shah of Persia Reza Pahlavi and Farah Diba newly engaged.
Cover by Walter Molino.

28th February 1960 - Little Prince Andrew, newborn son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Cover by Walter Molino.

13th March 1960 - Princess Margaret and photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones newly engaged.
Cover by Walter Molino.

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Selected covers of Italian weekly newsmagazine La Domenica del Corriere.

Reigning Families and Former Sovrans.

La Domenica del Corriere (The Sunday of Corriere) was a weekly newsmagazine whose first issue was published on 8th January 1899. Its name was after the eminent Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera (The courier of the evening). La Domenica del Corriere was the most popular Italian newsmagazine from its beginning to the 1960s.
Above: cover of the first issue, by Achille Beltrame, about a dramatic snow storm in Montenegro.

Achille Beltrame

Walter Molino
Italian graphics and painters Achille Beltrame (until the 1930s) and Walter Molino (from the late 1940s to the 1960s) were the most popular authors of covers for La Domenica del Corriere.

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