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e already knew there was a growing number of experts on Ukraine and Iran among us, but no one expected such a wave of connoisseurs of the former crown of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. All it takes is for someone at dinner, out for drinks or in the cafeteria to mention the couple formed by Jordan Bardella and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and suddenly, you witness the rise in "princess expertise" around you.

Friends, neighbors, colleagues – people you would never have imagined interested in royal affairs – suddenly prove able to discuss which king of France is supposedly related to the young woman photographed by Paris Match with the leader of the Rassemblement National.

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