Benito Mussolini- His seemingly meteoric rise to the leadership of the Fascist Party was permanently crippled by a rival journalist's revelation of his hithero secret marriage to the one Ida Dalser who had borne their son Benino. Although, initially he denied it, his in-laws the Guidis were furious that he'd placed their daughter Rachele in a bigamous union and, over Rachele's own objections, had their marriage annulled by the Vatican on said grounds. Rachele would become a nun and their offspring were placed into Church orphanages before the daughter Gedda was adopted while the sons seemed to have remained in the orphanages the rest of their childhoods. This would forever cause the Mussolini to be scornful of the Vatican. However; he actually decided to make the best of his now-known legal union with Ida and did all he could to make up for lost time with their son Benino- even though he'd never even attempt to make the appearance of being a true spouse to Ida. As a result of Benino opting to be bar mitzvahed due to being Jewish on his maternal side, Mussolini became quite a defender of Jewish rights in Rome and other Italian cities while being increasingly at odds with his former party and, after its new leader became allies of Hitler, Mussolini would be interred in a concentration camp where he'd die in 1941. Benino had been warned by his father and would spend the rest of WWII in exile in Switzerland before emigrating to British Palestine in 1946 then would become an Israeli citizen in 1948 which would culminate in him becoming Prime Minister from 1956-1967 which would see the expansion of Israel's territory seven fold and would have a grand state funeral in 1985. As for Ida, oddly enough, she'd convert to Catholicism and become a nun after her husband's death before dying herself in 1958.
Elizabeth Seton
