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{{Short description|Italian Navy commander (1906β1974)}} {{multiple issues| {{more footnotes|date=January 2014}} {{refimprove|date=August 2014}} }} {{Infobox officeholder |birth_name= Junio Valerio Scipione Ghezzo Marcantonio Maria Borghese |image = Borghese.jpg |caption = |order = Honorary President of the<br>[[Italian Social Movement]] |term_start = 1951 |term_end = 1953 |predecessor = ''none'' |successor = [[Rodolfo Graziani]] |birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|6|6|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Rome]], [[Lazio]], [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|8|26|1906|6|6|df=y}} |death_place = [[CΓ‘diz]], [[Andalusia]], [[Francoist Spain|Spain]] |restingplace = [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]] |nationality = [[Italian nationality law|Italian]] |party = [[National Fascist Party]]{{efn|Borghese was not affiliated to the [[Republican Fascist Party]] due to his noble origins, which were at odds with the principles of the party.}}<br>(1926β1943)<br>[[Italian Social Movement]]<br> (1946β1967)<br>[[National Front (Italy 1967)|National Front]]<ref name="Panorama">{{Cite book|title=Panorama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3g7AQAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Mondadori|page=384}}</ref><br>(1968β1970) |spouse = {{Marriage|Darya Vasilyevna Olsufeeva|1931|1963|end=her death}} |children = 4 |height = {{convert|1.75|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |alma_mater = [[Italian Naval Academy]] |profession = [[Military officer]] <!--Military service--> |nickname = The Black Prince |allegiance = {{flag|Kingdom of Italy}}<br>{{flag|Italian Social Republic}} |branch = ''{{navy|Kingdom of Italy}}''<br>{{navy|Italian Social Republic}} |serviceyears = 1928β1945 |rank = [[Frigate captain]] |unit = ''[[Decima Flottiglia MAS]]'' |commands = ''[[Decima Flottiglia MAS]]'' |battles = [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War]]<br>[[Spanish Civil War]]<br>[[World War II]] * [[Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II|Mediterranean campaign]] ** [[Raid on Alexandria (1941)|Raid on Alexandria]] *[[Italian campaign (World War II)|Italian campaign]] |awards = [[Gold Medal of Military Valour]] }} '''Junio Valerio Scipione Ghezzo Marcantonio Maria Borghese''' (6 June 1906 β 26 August 1974), nicknamed '''The Black Prince''', was an [[Italian Navy]] commander during the regime of [[Benito Mussolini]]'s [[National Fascist Party]] and a prominent hardline [[neo-fascist]] politician in post-war Italy. In 1970, he took part in the planning of a neo-fascist coup, dubbed the [[Golpe Borghese]], that was called off after the press discovered it; he subsequently fled to Spain and spent the last years of his life there.
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